Unfazed by the sound of minisupercomputer makers crashing all over the US, Tinton Falls, New Jersey-based Concurrent Computer Corp has decided to put its embryonic efforts in the field into a 50-50 joint venture with General Microelectronics Corp. The new company, Supercomputing Solutions Inc, will market the General Microelectronics Capps parallel supercomputer, and will complete development of and start marketing a commercial version of the Navier-Stokes developed at Princeton University – Concurrent’s first interest in the rarified field. It will also assist in the US government’s efforts to develop an application-specific supercomputer to solve a number of compute-intensive scientific problems for which there are currently no solutions. The new firm will work to ward the development of both hard ware and software for a family of parallel supercomputers. The Nati onal Aeronautics & Space Administr ation and a Department of Defense agency, which have been supported both the Capps the Navier Stokes computer developments, will be pot ential users of the company’s line.
