Keeping faith with its Gould Computer Systems users, Encore Computer Corp, now in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says that it is shipping the new Concept 32/2000 32-bit real-time minicomputer that it hinted at last November (CI No 1,307). The company also announces price-performance enhancements based on performance accelerators and pricing incentives. There is a new scientific accelerator, an optimiser toolset and memory mapped controllers. The machine is a complement to the Encore 90 family of parallel 88000 RISC-based machines launched in March (CI No 1,399). The memory mapped high-speed data interface accelerates performance through memory mapping and by processing input-output directly to memory and a Memory-Centric design provides separate dedicated pathways for CPU memory access and input-output processing, eliminating cache misses and conten tion for guaranteed, deterministic real time response times. The Re flective Memory System (patent pend ing) enables up to eight processors to be tightly coupled in a shared memory system. Prices for the Con cept 32/2000 start at $125,000, now.
ENCORE SHIPPING CONCEPT 32/2000
