Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration, and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company’s high-speed Memory Channel, which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors, and Infinity File System, which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database. The products will be offered by DEC on its Alpha AXP systems – initially the DEC 7000 and 10000 AXP systems running OSF/1. Oracle Corp will offer the Oracle7 Parallel Server for clustered environments.
