UK-owned Concord, Massachusetts-headquartered Meiko World Inc, the multipurpose parallel computing outfit that started life as an Inmos Transputer acolyte in Bristol, Avon, has extended its Sparc-based CS-2 family with a CS-2/HA high availability system. The CS-2/HA is targeted at decision support and transaction processing and includes redundancy, hot swapping and an independent diagnostic and control network. The CS-2, which runs Solaris 2.0, has three types of node for vector, input-output and scalar processing. There is a choice of 50MHz SuperSparc or 66MHz HyperSparc chips and optional vector processors from Fujitsu Ltd. The number of processor nodes can range from eight to 4,096. Existing CS-2 users include Lloyds of London and Lawrence Liv ermore Labs. CS-2/HAs are going to Hewlett-Packard Ink-Jet Division, CERN – the Centre for European Research into Nucleonics – in Switzerland and the University of Vienna in Austria. Meiko claims 450 systems installed at 250 organisations; revenue last year was $30m.
