sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sunflash@suntri sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Product Announcements SunFLASH Vol 54 #5 June 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary 54.05.A USENIX Information Available via Mail Server The USENIX Association now has a mail server that will answer requests received through electronic mail. e.g. membership, conferences, and publications 54.05.B BatchMaster for UNIX Multi-platform facility to schedule, run, and monitor your batch data processing. 54.05.C CERAM's fixed size RAM disk CERAM announces the highest performance, lowest cost RAM disk for SPARC based Systems. CERAM provides a FREE performance analyzer. 54.05.D Ilog Views makes complex graphics possible in C++ ILOG VIEWS is an an advanced tool for building interactive, graphic-intensive applications. 54.05.E GENROCO High Performance RAID Functions on TURBOstor Disk Controllers Raid functions available for 24 megabyte/second enhanced IPI and 20 megabyte/second fwdSCSI controllers for SBus platforms running SunOS or Solaris 2 54.05.F Siren Editor - Poweful Point & Click Editing New Motif-based text Editor Goes Way Beyond Simple Tools Provided by Hardware Vendors 54.05.G We need more colors displayable for imaging This is an article from Tech-Source that explains some of the technical problems in using color imaging and how Tech-Sources Sbus frame buffers can solve those problems -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: USENIX Information Available via Mail Server From: toni@usenix.ORG (Toni Veglia) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Organization: USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA The USENIX Association now has a mail server that will answer requests received through electronic mail. Information is available about USENIX membership, conferences, and publications. A full lising of topics is available in the catalog below. Please send all requests to: almanac@usenix.org The body of your mail message should contain only instructions on what to send, for example: send catalog will have the almanac catalog sent back to you. If you have any questions, please send email to: almanac-admin@usenix.org USENIX Association Automatic Information Server ( almanac@usenix.org) Primary Topic Catalog April 27, 1993 This is a list of the primary topics available from the USENIX Association information server. There are often sub-topics available within these topics with more specific information. To get a list of sub-topics, send the line: send topic catalog where "topic" is one of the primary topics listed below. All files are in plain text format. ****************************************************************** Topic: upcoming Description: "upcoming" is a brief listing of the names and dates of upcoming USENIX Conferences and Symposia. There are no subtopics in "upcoming". Topic: calls Description: "calls" contains the current calls-for-papers for upcoming USENIX conferences and symposia. Topic: conf.reg Description: "conf.reg" contains all available conference registration information for upcoming USENIX conferences and symposia. This includes information on technical sessions, tutorials, registration fees and accomodations. Topic: order Description: "order" contains the current order forms for our publications, which include conference proceedings and journals. Topic: membership Description: "membership" contains information about USENIX and SAGE membership, as well as an application form. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: BatchMaster for UNIX Newsgroups: comp.newprod From: sid@vdhcomp.on.ca (Sid Van den Heede) Contact: Tammy Gillen John Gowans OTG Systems, Inc. The Primary Group Suite 300, Rts 106 & 374 P.O. Box 1053 P.O. Box 239 Ivanhoe, Victoria 3079 Clifford, PA 18413-0239 Australia +1 717 222-9100 +61 3 497 1484 +1 717 222-9103 (fax) +61 3 497 2623 (fax) info@vdhcomp.on.ca BatchMaster is now available for several UNIX platforms, after extensive end-user testing at our large corporate accounts. BatchMaster provides a powerful yet easy to manage facility to schedule, run, and monitor your batch data processing. Its many advanced features facilitate resource contention management and job coordination, to maximize usage of your computers with minimal effort, and thereby help delay the expense of upgrading your equipment. BatchMaster frees your time by allowing users to control their jobs themselves, within the confines of your policies that you establish once. You can change your policies at any time, and you and your operators can exercise general control over the batch environment. BatchMaster can replace cron, or you can leave your existing administration tasks in cron and use BatchMaster for your new data processing and administration tasks. BatchMaster addresses the needs of users of PICK oriented, UNIX-based products. For example, uniVerse users can submit paragraphs, sentences, and verbs directly to BatchMaster, gaining all of the job control features without leaving the uniVerse environment. BatchMaster is available now, running on the following platforms. Call for current information. Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1.x) RS6000 (AIX) HP9000-8xx (HP-UX) i386 (SCO, Interactive) Pricing: licence: $1250 for each of the first two machines + S&H $3000 total for a site + S&H maintenance: call for details; includes full support, upgrades, and fixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: CERAM's fixed size RAM disk From: Scott.Currier@Ceram.COM (Scott Currier) CERAM announces the highest performance, lowest cost RAM disk for SPARC based Systems COLORADO SPRINGS (May 30, 1993) -- CERAM, Inc., designer and manufacturer of innovative performance solutions for the Open Computing Marketplace, today announced the availability of a fixed capacity TurboCard RAM disk. This new offering provides the fastest data access and transfer rates of any RAM disk for Sun based workstations, servers, and compatibles. The new fixed size RAM disk is the only SBus based solid-state storage device for the Sun (and SPARC compatibles) market, and since it is an SBus device, it provides better throughput performance than any currently available storage devices. This new High-Performance, Low-Cost, RAM disk offers exceptional value and performance, and is designed with the diverse needs of the financial and commercial markets in mind. Software: Supports raw interface for database tables Full 4.2 File System Support NFS mountable Up to 8 partitions Hardware: Single Slot SBUS Card Up to 12 cards per system Full ECC Capacity: 72MB Per Card Raw Device 64MB Per Card Formatted With 4.2 File System Maximum 864MB Per System Performance: With 50MHz SuperSPARC systems: Random Read: 1900 4KByte IOPS Per Card Sequential Read: 8MB/Sec Sustained Per Card Random Write: 2250 4KByte IOPS Per Card Sequential Write: 11MB/Sec Per Card In a 432MB (unformatted) configuration, there are 6 cards. The total number of IOPS will be determined by available CPU resources and bus contention, but should approach 5000 on a 4 processor configuration. These numbers are significantly higher than SCSI based solid-state disk solutions, and can be used to take full advantage of Solaris 2.x multi-threading and the new faster processors. Pricing: US$70/MB MSRP Available in 72MB (US$5040) increments up to 864MB (US$60,480) per system. CERAM's products are sold through a network of Direct Sales Offices in the United States and Europe, and by VARs and OEMs worldwide. Can CERAM products help you? CERAM provides a FREE performance analyzer which will: * Monitor your systems Memory, Swap, CPU and NFS packet use * Locate and determine the cause of performance bottlenecks * Evaluate if TurboCard can improve your system performance Receive "TurboTool" automatically via email by sending a request with your name, company and phone to: TurboTool@Ceram.COM For more information call: (800)237-8600, (719)540-8500 or email: Sales@Ceram.COM or Scott.Currier@Ceram.COM TurboCard, and TurboTool are trademarks of CERAM Incorporated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Ilog Views makes complex graphics possible in C++ From: shirleyk@qualix.com (Shirley Kumamoto) Org: Qualix Group Address: 1900 S. Norfolk St. Suite 224 San Mateo, CA 94403-1151 Voice: (415) 572-0200 or (800) 245-UNIX fax: (415) 572-1300 email: info@qualix.com Ilog Views works with Standard GUI Builders to make Complex Graphics Possible ILOG VIEWS is an an advanced tool for building interactive, graphic-intensive applications. It is a development tool that augments traditional GUI builders with a library of reusable and extensible graphical objects that enable the display and manipulation of complex data. It is written in C++ and provides the on-screen display of 10,000s of graphic objects per second -- with very low memory requirements -- on standard PCs and workstations. ILOG VIEWS enables graphics-intensive applications such as air traffic control, simulation in C3I, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), network monitoring, trading-floor automation, and CASE editors. ILOG VIEWS will debut at ObjectWorld, Booth #431, June 15 - 17, 1993, at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center. ILOG will also hold a product briefing on Tuesday, June 15 at 1:15 p.m. in Theater #2 at the Convention Center. Object Oriented, Layered Architecture ------------------------------------- ILOG VIEWS is based on a true object-oriented architecture, which separates visual aspects from objects' behavior to provide users with class reusability and programming flexibility. ILOG VIEWS offers a layered architecture, including: % Drawing primitives, such as basic shapes, resource management, event handling, and PostScript support % Graphic objects, such as predefined classes of 2-D graphical objects and icons, efficient duplication of nested objects, and composing of complex objects into new classes % View managers for creating multiple layered views, with flexible object behaviors, including rotation and zoom effects % Advanced modules of predefined objects, such as charts, gauges, spreadsheets, drawing and graphs editors, and standard dialogs. Integrates with Standard Windowing Environments ---------------------------------------------- ILOG VIEWS is provided as a C++ library in which classes are feature rich, efficient, and extensible, allowing for the rapid development of complex applications. ILOG VIEWS offers a single API across windowing environments; the drawing primitives are independent of the platforms and graphics standards, which allows for immediate application portability across industry-standard windowing environments and hardware platforms. The product complements Motif, Open Look, and Windows 3.0 widget sets and GUI builders. C or C++ third-party widget libraries are easily integrated with ILOG VIEWS. ILOG VIEWS is designed to integrate seamlessly with any existing or future applications running under X or Windows. Pricing and Availability ILOG VIEWS is currently available on Sun, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, DEC, and SGI workstations and is priced at $5,000 per development license. The PC version will be available in third quarter '93. Ilog Views is sold through a direct sales force as well as through the Qualix Group, a leading Unix software distributor. ILOG VIEWS is a trademark of ILOG, Inc. All other product or company names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: GENROCO High Performance RAID Functions on TURBOstor Disk Controllers Contact: Carl A. Pick, Chairman Org: GENROCO, Inc. Phone: 414-644-8700 Voicemail: 414-791-5530 Fax: 414-644-6667 Address: 205 Kettle Moraine Drive North Slinger, WI 53086 U.S.A. Email: carl@genroco.com GENROCO, Inc. has announced its new "TURBOraid" controller-based striping and shadowing firmware for the Company's TURBOstor family of disk controllers. Effective September '93, TURBOraid microcode will become a standard, no charge feature on all of GENROCO's 24 megabyte/second enhanced IPI and 20 megabyte/second fwdSCSI controllers for DEC Alpha TURBOchannel and Futurebus+ or Sun SBus platforms running OSF/1, OpenVMS, SunOS, or Solaris 2 operating systems. Previously installed TURBOstor units can be upgraded for a nominal fee. TURBOstor storage systems with TURBOraid offer significantly higher throughput than conventional RAID boxes at competitive prices. TURBOraid consists of "TURBOstripe" RAID-0 logical unit striping for high sustained data rate applications and "TURBOmirror" RAID-1+ intelligent disk shadowing for high availability requirements. Either function can be installed at configuration time and becomes transparent to the host operating system. The system manager may organize disks as striped or shadowed pairs as well as individual drive units, depending upon user needs. The TURBOstripe function allows pairs drives on an IPI or SCSI daisy chain to be treated by the host operating system as a single, logical unit, thereby producing aggregate data rates of over 18 megabytes/second with Seagate Elite-3 enhanced IPI-2 drives on a Sun SPARC 10 platform. Such a sustained rate is fast enough to allow for the 24 frame per second playback of a 512 x 512 pixel full color (24 bit), or 1280 x 1024 pixel gray scale (4 bit) video. TURBOmirror not only provides information protection with an automatic image copy of each data disk on the controller, but also delivers increased throughput over unshadowed drives by taking advantage of duplicate copies of the same data. RAID-1+ power gives high availability databases greater integrity and faster access than lower performance RAID-3 or RAID-5 solutions. If a drive fails, the TURBOstor controller will continue to read and write to the remaining drive of the shadowed pair, and TURBOraid will rebuild the data in the background when a replacement drive is brought online. TURBOraid functions may be enabled concurrently with DEC and Sun host based striping and shadowing software. Products based on GENROCO TURBOstor disk controllers are available ONLY from Digital Equipment Corporation, DEC Authorized Distributors, and selected Sun VARs. The following depicts estimated performance figures for TURBOraid on GENROCO S224 SBus IPI controller with Elite-3 disk drives: normal TURBOstripe TURBOmirror ---- ---- ---- Gigabytes/Controller 24 24 12 Logical Drives/Controller 8 4 4 Maximum WRITE Data Rate (Megabytes/sec) 10 18 10 Maximum READ Data Rate 10 18 18 (long) Average WRITE Data Rate 9 16 9 Average READ Data Rate 9 16 16 Average I/O Operation (Milliseconds) 12.0 12.5 9.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Siren Editor - Poweful Point & Click Editing From: morrison@siren.com (Jeff Morrison) Contact: Diane McGary (Press Contact) Org: Niehaus Ryan Haller Public Relations Phone: 415-615-7911 e-mail: dmcgary@well.sf.ca.us Contact: Jeff Morrison Vice President, Sales & Marketing org: Siren Software Phone: 415-322-0600 e-mail: morrison@siren.com SIREN EDITOR DELIVERS POWERFUL POINT-AND-CLICK EDITING TO MOTIF USERS New Editor Goes Way Beyond Simple Tools Provided by Hardware Vendors MENLO PARK, CA June 2, 1993 - Siren Software Corporation today announced Siren Editor, a Motif-based text editor that runs on several UNIX platforms. Siren Editor is a powerful, cross-platform editing solution that offers far more capability than the text-editing tools bundled by hardware vendors, and is an attractive alternative to control-key editors such as vi and emacs. In addition to its comprehensive editing capabilities, Siren Editor includes multi-file window management, a unique column-mode editing capability, a shell facility, and auto-save, auto-backup and auto-recovery facilities-all delivered in a straightforward, Motif interface. Superior to vi, emacs, xedit, and Text Tools Bundled with Hardware ------------------------------------------------------------------ "At Lockheed, we have been searching for an easy-to-use editor that runs on all our platforms," said Nick Pekelsma, manager of the Common Simulation Computing Center at Lockheed. "Siren Editor delivers a straightforward, consistent interface without compromising any power. It's much better than the editing tools that came with our Sun, Solbourne, SGI and IBM worksta- tions. And Siren Editor's speed and column-editing capabilities have even impressed our most experienced vi users." An Important Part of Open-Systems and Downsizing Strategies ----------------------------------------------------------- After converting to UNIX workstations, the systems operations group at Otter Tail Power in western Minnesota looked at several editors before selecting Siren Editor. "The vi editor is just too much of a dinosaur," remarked operations engineer Barry Peterson. "After evaluating several alternatives, Siren Editor was our clear choice. Its simple interface and powerful window management deliver considerable editing power, and Siren Editor was the only product we evaluated that could handle the 5,000- character-wide data files used by our network simulation software." "Anyone deploying UNIX systems to end-users should find Siren Editor indispensable", commented Bruce Mitchell, Siren's president and CEO. "It reduces support costs dramatically and gives end-users a new level of independence and self-sufficiency previously unseen in UNIX computing communities." Powerful Editing Capabilities ----------------------------- Siren Editor delivers editing power that goes beyond the capabilities of traditional text editors, and includes many unique features in a simple, productive interface usable by both engineers and end-users. With Siren Editor, users can: o Edit files with lines of any length, o Undo editing actions multiple times to correct mistakes, o Preserve original line numbers to debug source code and scripts, o Run external UNIX commands and scripts that create and process file contents, o Print or save all or any portion of a file, o Save files periodically, and create backups and crash recovery files automatically, o Edit many files at the same time, o Split windows to view two parts of a file simultaneously, o Store and retrieve frequently used text in user-named buffers, o Search and replace text in a selected area or in an entire file, and o Cut, copy and paste text using the mouse, pull-down menus or control- key accelerators, In addition, administrators and users can customize Siren Editor's key mappings, macros, colors, fonts, and functionality. Unique Column-Oriented Editing Provides New Powers -------------------------------------------------- In addition to traditional line-oriented editing, Siren Editor provides a unique column-editing capability that lets users cut and copy rectangular areas of text and paste them into other locations and files. Siren Editor's column-mode capabilities enable users to edit tables, reports, lists, source code and other formatted files quickly and easily. Comprehensive Window Management Boosts Usability ------------------------------------------------ Siren Editor's powerful window management facilities allow users to view and edit multiple files in a single, integrated environment. Users can open several files in separate Siren Editor windows and cut and paste text among them. Siren Editor also lets users split any individual window into two separately scrollable and resizable panes so they can view different parts of a file at the same time. Editing Flexibility Lets Users Work Their Way --------------------------------------------- With Siren Editor, users can employ pull-down menus or control-key accel- erators to cut, copy and paste text. Siren Editor also lets users highlight and copy text using standard X Window System mouse conventions. Siren Editor also provides special cut and paste commands that move text to user-named buffers that retain their contents for an entire Siren Editor session. Experienced users can also define function-key macros that perform specific commands or insert commonly used text. Complete Search-and-Replace Facility Saves Time ----------------------------------------------- Siren Editor provides a powerful search-and-replace facility that enables users to locate occurrences of specific text strings easily. The string may include regular UNIX expression characters such as wildcards. With the click of a button, users can locate any or all occurrences of a string in a file and replace them with new text. Auto-Save, Backup and Recovery Facilities Provide Vital Safeguards ------------------------------------------------------------------ Siren Editor protects users from losing critical work due to mistakes and system crashes. Its undo facility allows users to reverse the effects of their most recent commands, rolling their file back to a previous state. The auto-save facility saves open files automatically at user-specified intervals. The backup facility automatically saves an original, unchanged copy of a file so users may revert to it after making changes. And the crash-recovery facility saves files to temporary names so users can restart their editing sessions where they were when their computer crashed. Powerful Shell Facility Runs External Commands ---------------------------------------------- Siren Editor includes a shell facility that extends Siren Editor's capabil- ities to include all UNIX commands, programs and scripting facilities. Users can enter UNIX commands in a pop-up dialog and tell Siren Editor to pass highlighted text to the command as input. In addition, they can paste the results of the command back into the file they are editing. Siren Editor's shell facility enables users to sort text columns, retrieve report results, run spelling checkers, edit file listings, even run complex edit- ing scripts that perform multiple steps transparently. Customization Options Meet Specific Individual and Organizational Needs ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Users and system administrators can customize Siren Editor to meet specific individual or organizational needs. Menu commands and pop-up dialogs allow users to alter Siren Editor's appearance and behavior. Siren Editor also lets users define system-wide and personal keyboard bindings, accelerator keys, function-key macros, colors, fonts, window size, cursor shape and other items. Users can also customize the behavior of Siren Editor's auto-save, auto-backup, auto-indent, undo and search facilities. Pricing and Availability ------------------------ Siren Editor 1.0 is available immediately and runs on a variety of UNIX platforms including Sun SPARC, HP 9000, IBM RS/6000, Silicon Graphics, DG AViiON, Motorola 88K and SCO. Other ports will made available according to customer demand. A single-user license of Siren Editor is priced at $249, a 5-user license is $995 and a 10-user license is priced at $1,795. Additional discounts and floating-license options are available for larger sites. The Siren Editor package includes a user's guide, magnetic media, installation instructions, 30 days of installation support, as well as a 30-day money- back guarantee. Technical support, upgrade and maintenance contracts are available. Customers can place orders or get further information about Siren Editor by calling Siren Software at 800-45-SIREN or 415-322-0600, or by sending e-mail to info@siren.com. About Siren Software Corporation -------------------------------- Siren Software Corporation develops and markets open-systems messaging software that enables organizations to efficiently exchange and manage electronic messages and information. Siren Software was founded in 1990 and is a privately held corporation headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Siren and Siren Fax are trademarks of Siren Software Corporation. Other companies mentioned own numerous registered trademarks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: We need more colors displayable for imaging From: Michael Tobias, President Org: Tech-Source Inc. Address: 442 S. North Lake Blvd. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 Tel: (407) 830-8301 or (800) 330-8301 Fax: (407) 339-2554 Email: techsrc!mike@uunet.uu.net WE NEED MORE COLORS DISPLAYABLE FOR IMAGING Michael J. Tobias Tech-Source Inc. Why is it that scanners for medical imaging (MRI, CAT, etc.) produce 12-bit gray scale yet every frame buffer and graph- ics accelerator only provide 256 shades of gray? Even 24- bit graphics cards can only support 256 shades of gray. Satellite images are generated using 8-bit, but this doesn't leave any colors for the window system. This has been a very frustrating problem for anyone trying to do any real imaging work using a standard workstation. Many people are annoyed at the "colormap flashing" problem incurred with window systems. There are several reasons for the 8-bit limitation on output devices. To understand any of them requires a minimal understanding of how colors are generated in a typical graphics card. Most color graphics cards today work one of two ways, pseudo color or true color. A pseudo color system uses a single byte to store a color. A true color system uses a single byte to store each of the red, green and blue color values independently. While true color systems can produce 24-bits of color, there are limi- tations. Grey requires an even amount of red, green and blue in order to produce shades between black and white. Therefore, there are only 256 combinations from 0 to 255 of gray on both an 8-bit and 24-bit system. The only advantage a 24-bit graphics system has is the ability to display other colors along with the 256 shades of gray. The 8-bit pseudo color system only allows 2^8 or 256 colors total, so when displaying images requiring 256 shades of gray plus other colors for window borders, etc. the colormap must be swapped. This swapping is what causes colormap flashing. Another difference between pseudo color and true color is the ability to assign an arbitrary color to any pixel value in the frame buffer. A pseudo color system looks up the pixel value in a 3-tuple color lookup table to determine the intensity for red, green and blue collectively. This allows any value between 0 and 255 to be any allowable color in the palette. For example, color index 1 could produce red, green, blue or any shade thereof. By contrast a true color system uses 24-bits (3 bytes) to specify a pixel value. However, this is accomplished by hard wiring one byte to specify the red intensity, another byte for green intensity and the third byte for blue inten- sity. Therefore, it is impossible for color index 1 to pro- duce anything but shades of the color it is hard wired to; red for example. In order to change a color on a true color system it is necessary change its value in the frame buffer. For example to change a pixel from red (0x0000ff) to green (0x00ff00), the data in the frame buffer must change rather than changing the looked up value in the color lookup table. This can be very time consuming and CPU intensive when deal- ing with large images. The obvious solution is to provide lookup tables with more entries than 256. Certainly there are Digital-to-Analog converters that can provide accuracy greater than 8-bits. The problem lies in the lookup phase. Brooktree is the industry leader for color lookup tables or RAMDACs (random access memory D to A converter). While they have success- fully produces a 10-bit lookup table with 1024 entries, they have not achieved the RAM speeds necessary to mass produce a 12-bit 4096 entry lookup table. To address this problem, Tech-Source has produced a unique SBus graphics accelerator. The GXTRA/3 SBus card provides the ability to display more than 256 colors at once by pro- viding a graphic overlay capability. Many applications which tried to fit into the 24-bit true color model to pro- vide more colors, but need the pseudo color capability may be modified to use the GXTRA/3. By using a concept known as a graphic overlay, it is possi- ble for a program to draw into a separately addressable screen like a transparent sheet of paper. This concept is most widely known in the Book of Anatomy where the page showing the human skeleton is overlayed with the transparent sheet containing muscle and vital organs. The Tech-Source GXTRA/3 graphics accelerator provides a standard 8-bit 256 color or gray scale frame buffer with a 4-bit 15 color transparency overlay frame buffer. It is possible to run OpenWindows in the overlay frame buffer and open windows providing 256 colors independent of those used by the windowing system. No more colormap flashing! The graphic overlay is also well suited for applications requiring animation or target tracking over maps. By plac- ing the background information in the standard screen and overlaying symbols or animated objects in the overlay screen, the problem of saving and restoring detailed backgrounds is eliminated because the objects are moving in their own space. The GXTRA/3 accomplishes all of this using the X Window Sys- tem. There are no non-standard extensions required. For more information call Tech-Source and ask for the "GXTRA/3 Does It All" Application Note. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. 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