Framingham, Massachusetts-based Charles River Data Systems has a new Relational Accelerator in its line of servers designed to accelerate Oracle in a Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS environment. The RA/45 runs the TP-1 Benchmark at 45 transactions per second and offers 17 VAX Units of Performance, the company claims. Where its RA/30 uses the 80386, the new one uses the 80486 at 33MHz, and Charles River claims that in a typical example, a $550,000 VAX 6220, rated at 5.5 VUPS, uses 60% of CPU resources running Oracle, and that that falls to as little as 20% with the accelerator, freeing $220,000 of VAX resources. The RA/45 is aimed at VAXes delivering 5 to 18 VUPS with up to 100 Oracle users. The RA/45 comes iwth 2Gb of disk, expandable to 10Gb and uses multiple controllers and disk striping; it has an 8mm tape, 32Mb memory expandable to 64Mb, and a modem for remote diagnostics. It can also take 1Gb admin and 1Gb shadow disks as options. The company gave no indication of price or delivery.
