Having adopted Silicon Graphics Inc’s Iris Explorer object-oriented application building environment last month (CI No 1,951), Cray Research Inc now has a C++ compiler to go with it. The Cray C++ Compiling System is an enhanced supercomputer version of Unix Systems Laboratories Inc’s C++ Language System 3.0.1, and operates in conjunction with the existing Cray Standard C Compiler. The C++ Language System runs on the full line and has been licensed to two undisclosed customers. The company says that Sandia National Laboratories are using object-oriented programming techniques for quick development of defect-free software with limited resources, including three-dimensional shock physics codes, three-dimensional fluid dynamics codes, and three-dimensional mesh generation codes. No price was given.
