sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Announcements SunFLASH Vol 58 #6 October 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts 58.06.A IRI Releases SunOS COSORT Version 3.0 COSORT is a sort/merge package. 58.06.B Aggregate's Equal Opportunity Computing Equal Opportunity Computing provides everyone on the network with equal access to the network of computing resources without requiring users to have any knowledge of the network. Users simply view the network as a virtual multiprocessor, accessable for every computing need. 58.06.C Book: O'Reilly's Japanese Info Processing first book for anyone interested in using Japanese on computers. It is written for programmers, users, and academics wanting to understand the many complex issues surrounding the use of the Japanese language in computing. 58.06.D CERAM introduces a High-Speed Server Accelerator TurboDisk-Cache is CERAM's latest offering based their highly successful TurboCard Solid State RAM Disk for Sun 58.06.E CERES - A Global Knowledge Network The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, in collaboration with a number of universities in Europe and Asia, has launched an initiative to create a global knowledge network to facilitate world-wide sharing of information needed for developing environmentally sound products. 58.06.F Informix Ships New Release of Secure Database INFORMIX-OnLine/Secure 5.0 is a new version of Informix's multilevel secure database server for secure UNIX platforms, and INFORMIX-STAR/Secure, the company's connectivity tool for secure distributed and client/server applications. 58.06.G HP NetMetrix now runs on Solaris 2.x Hewlett Packard Company announced that HP NetMetrix applications 3.10, which make an integrated tool set for monitoring and analyzing distributed heterogeneous networks, now run on Solaris 2.x Internetwork Monitor NFS Monitor Load Monitor Protocol Analyzer Traffic Generator Power Agent 58.06.H Purify for Solaris 2 Purify uses Object Code Insertion Technology to determine incorrect memory access errors in your C, C++ programs at run-time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: IRI Releases SunOS COSORT Version 3.0 Org: INFORMATION RESOURCES, INC. Address: 319 Decker Road, Mail Stop RR1 Craryville, NY 12521-9772 USA Phone: 1-800-333-SORT Email: cosort@iri.com Phone: 1-518-851-2815 Fax: 1-518-851-9822 IRI Releases SunOS COSORT Version 3.0 New I/O Control Speeds Sorts Another 20% Craryville, NY -- September 20, 1993 -- Information Resources, Inc. is now shipping Version 3.0 of its sort/merge software, COSORT. The new release is faster and contains more robust report writing facilities for mainframe-to-UNIX "rightsizers." COSORT's new "BlockSize" tuning parameter allows users to assign very large record blocks for sorting. Users can set an optimal number of bytes per physical read and write for each sort execution. The resulting throughput improvement over Version 2.5 is, on average, between 15 and 25%. Performance improvements are more notable with larger data volumes. On a SPARCtation 2, COSORT 3.0 sorted 80MB in under two minutes. In addition to the new record buffering, COSORT allows users and programmers to assign the locations of sort workspace and overflow across multiple file systems. The mainframe-like sort interface to COSORT 3.0 -- called SORTCL (for SORT Control Language) -- has an expanded command set to include record header and trailer labeling, multiple format input and output files, and field summing. SORTCL is a high level language based on the VAX VMS Sort Utility and is designed for installations converting from proprietary mainframe sort scripts. SORTCL takes an open SQL/4GL/DBMS approach (field name vs. column numbers, for example) to allows general- purpose report generation. COSORT is the first and only third-party sort/merge package designed for both UNIX data processing and application development. The product includes three standalone utilities for end-user operations and can be called from programs written in C, COBOL and FORTRAN. It permits all sizes and types of data files, including ASCII, EBCDIC, and MF and RM COBOL binary forms. Records can be fixed or variable length to 32,768 bytes and any number of sort keys can be defined in stable or floating fields. The product's coroutine architecture imposes no limits on input, compare or output criteria and reduces I/O through simultaneous, in- memory record exchanges with application (calling) programs. COSORT 3.0 file names follow ISO 9660 conventions. Major industry branding and compatibility certification tests are in progress. COSORT is available on all UNIX-based hardware, with configuration- dependent license fees starting at $990. COSORT has been used at UNIX sites worldwide since 1986, and under SunOS since 1987. Today it is available for SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x. Trademarks: COSORT of IRI. All other brand/product/OS names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Aggregate's Equal Opportunity Computing Contact: Lauren Seidl Org: Aggregate Computing, Inc Email: eoc@aggregate.com Phone: 612-546-5579 800-966-1666 Equal Opportunity Computing - Equal Processing Power for ALL Do you have: A network of workstations with different processing power and memory? Not enough power on your desk to get your job done? No money to buy the machine to meet your peak processing requirements? If you answered YES to any of these questions, Equal Opportunity Computing will interest you! Equal Opportunity Computing provides everyone on the network with equal access to the network of computing resources without requiring users to have any knowledge of the network. Users simply view the network as a virtual multiprocessor, accessable for every computing need. When a job is started in an equal opportunity computing environment, the job's resource requirements are matched with the current state of network resources to locate the "appropriate" machine for running the job quickly and accurately on those "appropriate" machines. And, this is done transparently to the user!!! Since jobs are not always created equally, resource requirements policies must be flexible to handle high priority requests. If you are interested in learning more about Equal Opportunity Computing, send e-mail to eoc@aggregate.com or call Lauren Seidl at 1-800-966-1666 or 1-612-546-5579. If you have implemented Equal Opportunity Computing at your site, please contact Lauren Seidl to discuss your implementation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Book: O'Reilly's Japanese Info Processing From: brian@ora.com Understanding Japanese Information Processing By Ken Lunde 470 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-043-0, $29.95 (US) We have just published the first book for anyone interested in using Japanese on computers. It is written for programmers, users, and academics wanting to understand the many complex issues surrounding the use of the Japanese language in computing. It may also be of value to both English- and Japanese-speaking companies wishing to increase trans-Pacific communications. Unlike English, which has 26 letters in a single alphabet, Japanese has thousands of characters in three scripts. The issues around handling such an unwieldy collection of data are formidable and complex. Up to now, researching and understanding the relevant issues has been a difficult, if not unattainable task, especially to a person who doesn't read or speak Japanese. This book opens with a succinct description of origins of modern-day Japanese that leads to an explanation of Japanese character set standards and encoding methods. Topics covered in this book include: - The Japanese writing system. - Japanese character set standards. - Japanese encoding methods. - Japanese input and output. - Japanese code conversion - Japanese code and text processing tools. technique - Sending and receiving Japanese email. In addition, there are 15 appendixes which provide additional reference material, such as a code conversion table, character set tables, mapping tables, an extensive list of software sources, and a glossary. Author Ken R. Lunde joined Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1991 and is currently the project manager for Japanese Font Production. He has Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Ph.D candidate at the university with an area of specialization in Japanese linguistics. He maintains the online document entitled "JAPAN.INF" on the Internet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This and other O'Reilly products are available in the Americas and Japan through bookstores, or directly from the publisher. Access our gopher catalog by "telnet gopher.ora.com" (log in as "gopher"). To contact us: telephone 707-829-0515 (800-998-9938 in US & Canada); FAX 707-829-0104; email order@ora.com; or write O'Reilly & Associates, 103A Morris St., Sebastopol, CA, 95472, USA. GSA # GS-02F-6095A. Our international distributors are: * Europe (except German-speaking countries), Middle East, and Africa through International Thomson Publishing, Berkshire House, 168-173 High Holborn, London WC1V 7AA, UK. 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Telephone 61-2-979-5944; FAX 61-2-997-3348; or email woods@tmx.mhs.oz.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: CERAM introduces a High-Speed Server Accelerator From: Scott.Currier@Ceram.COM (Scott Currier) Phone: 1(800)237-8600, 1(719)540-8500 CERAM announces "TurboDisk-Cache" a High-Speed Server Accelerator COLORADO SPRINGS (September 30, 1993) -- CERAM, Inc., designer and manufacturer of innovative Performance Solutions for the Open Computing Marketplace, today announced the availability of TurboDisk-Cache - A high speed, solid-state SPARC based Server Accelerator. TurboDisk-Cache is CERAM's latest offering based their highly successful TurboCard Solid State RAM Disk for Sun Workstations, Servers and Compatibles. TurboDisk-Cache is used to cache database tables and frequently accessed files on a high-speed Solid-State RAM disk. The use of an I/O device cache on a Solid-State disk provides 50 times faster data response than accessing data from a mechanical disk. The data access acceleration provided by TurboDisk-Cache increases certain Database and "File Based Application" performance by a factor of 3 to 5 times (over 300 to 500% improvement). TurboDisk-Cache can be added to your systems incrementally, which lowers your overall system upgrade costs. It supports caching reads from any I/O device (disk, CD-ROM [UFS], tape, etc.) and eliminates disk I/O bottlenecks in database and file servers. TurboDisk-Cache allows up to 2500 IOPS. The TurboCard Solid-State Disk can be partitioned like a disk drive, and also acts as the servers primary swap device. This reduces your servers dependence on Main Memory and accelerates the performance of memory intensive routines. TurboCard is scalable up to 960MB, which allows sizing to optimum capacity; cache an entire index, the inodes, or your entire database! Write through to disk protect data integrity. TurboDisk-Cache is available for the entire family of Sun SBus based Servers and Compatibles. TurboDisk-Cache prices start at $4,940 (list) for an 80MB cache. 80MB provides enough storage to cache up to (and over) 1GB of application and database information. TurboDisk-Cache, and TurboCard are registered trademarks of CERAM Incorporated. All other trademarks are acknowledged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rar@cerc.wvu.edu (Y. V. Reddy) Subject: CERES - A Global Knowledge Network CERES: A Global Knowledge Network for Environmentally Sound Product Development The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, in collaboration with a number of universities in Europe and Asia, has launched an initiative to create a global knowledge network to facilitate world-wide sharing of information needed for developing environmentally sound products. Examples of such information are:processes for recycling, standards for products, laws and regulations, recommended manufacturing processes, materials, and so on. This project called CERES (for the Roman goddess who was believed to protect the fruits of the Earth) will connect users with globally distributed knowledge bases using current network information infrastructures, such as Internet, and generic servers such as Gopher and WAIS. This should make it possible for any product developer in the world to explore models and information related to product/process/material/deployment alternatives that will have the least impact on the Environment. It is envisioned that each country/region will create repositories of sharable knowledge that will be made available through the CERES Network. Proprietary knowledge on a pay-for-use basis may also be made available through CERES. This aspect will be explored in future with organizations such as the National Center for Manufacturing Science (NCMS-USA). The CERES concept is based on the following assumptions: 1. There is global interest in sharing environmental knowledge and thus making it a global resource. 2. Knowledge exists in diverse forms and media. 3. Global information infrastructure is emerging rapidly. 4. Government mandates and incentives for producing environmentally sound products are rapidly evolving. 5. Recycling infrastructure development is becoming a high priority for many countries. Specifically CERES will contain knowledge pertaining to: 1. disposability 2. recyclability 3.Material Substitution 4.Process Alternatives 5. Cost Models 6. Expert Systems 7. Animations/ Simulations 8. Expert Refferal networks 9. Advanced Research results 10. Case histories and other relevant information. An initial prototype network will be created and demonstrated using the Collaboration Technology developed under the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE-USA). The prototype network will have nodes at the following universities and research centers: 1. Concurrent Engineering Research Center (USA) - COORDINATION 2. University of Ghent (Belgium) 3. Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) 4. University of ROMA II at Frascati (Italy) 5. Institute for Research in Productics and Logistics (France) 6. St. Petersburg Academy for Aerospace Technology (Russia) 7. Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology (Japan) 8. GINTIC Institute for Manufacturing Technology (Singapore) 9. Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK) The initial organizing committee for CERES includes: Prof. R. Reddy, USA -- Chairman Prof. G. Vansteenkiste, Belgium Prof. E.J. Sol, The Netherlands Prof. G. Iazeolla, Italy Prof. S. Fukuda, Japan Mr. F. Perihirin, France Prof. A. Lukoshkin, Russia Prof. R. Yusupov, Russia Dr. S. Evans, UK Mr. D. Sng, Singapore The first working meeting of the organizing committee (including present members and other interested persons) is scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C, USA around January, 1994. The project will be kicked off at an International Conference to be held on Lake Baikal (Russia) in the third week of July, 1994. An electronic journal, to be named , will itself be made available through the knowledge network. The following committees of CERES are planned: 1. CERES Network Design Committee 2. CERES Knowledge Representation Committee 3. CERES Journal Committee 4. CERES Organizational Committee In addition, several domain-specific committees will be formed later. If you are interested in participating in the development of the CERES concept please contact: Professor Ramana Reddy Director Concurrent Engineering Research Center P.O. Box 6506 886 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26506 USA Phone: 304 293 7226 (Office) 304 594 1584 (Home) Fax 304 293 7541 E-mail: rar@cerc.wvu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Informix Ships New Release of Secure Database From: billd@informix.com (William Daul) Org: Informix Software, Inc. Informix Ships New Release of Secure Database Baltimore, MD, (September 20, 1993) Informix Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFMX) today announced the availability of INFORMIX-OnLine/Secure 5.0, a new version of its multilevel secure database server for secure UNIX platforms, and INFORMIX-STAR/Secure, the company's connectivity tool for secure distributed and client/server applications. The new release contains enhanced usability features that make it easier and safer than ever before to implement and maintain secure applications. It contains all the industry leading features of commercial INFORMIX-OnLine 5.0 including online transaction processing, high availability, referential integrity, stored procedures, and, with INFORMIX-STAR/Secure, complete distributed client/server capability. In addition, OnLine/Secure adds a new level of security that protects against unauthorized access of secure data by indirect methods or "covert channels." "In addition to OnLine/Secure's importance to government projects worldwide, we see increasing demand from our commercial customers who want to utilize a secure database," said Ram Varadarajan, product marketing manager. "We see it in the financial, health care, and petrochemical industries -- and really just about anywhere where a company may need to share data with one group and conceal that same data from another. "Customers are wasting precious resources if they are coding security into their applications themselves," Varadarajan added. "Customers using OnLine/Secure benefit from extensive security features already built into our product. Developers can focus on the application and rely on OnLine/Secure for security." New Security Capabilities for OnLine/Secure OnLine/Secure 5.0 adds a number of new security usability features, many of which are not offered by any other secure database vendor. They include: Protection From Covert Channel Access - Covert channel access is any communication channel that can be exploited by an indirect unauthorized attempt to violate database security. OnLine/Secure searches for covert channel communications using storage or timing mechanisms and notifies database administrators of such attempts. It also includes built-in locking mechanisms that shield classified information from low-level users. With protection from covert channel access, Informix goes beyond the B1 security level to protect secure data from being accessed either indirectly or covertly. Informix is currently the only database vendor to provide this capability. Protection From Aggregation - OnLine/Secure provides the ability to break a record into separate tables of classified and unclassified components giving application developers much more flexibility to design highly usable secure applications that are easy to administer. For example, an employee record can be broken into two tables, employee statistics and employee salary, the records in employee salary being classified. OnLine/Secure allows management of the two records as one entity, while users transparently gain access only to information that matches their level of security. Systemwide Discrete Privileges - This unique feature enables a security officer to temporarily grant authorized users and developers access to secure data in order to add flexibility and functionality to an OnLine/Secure database. Wide Range of Development Tools Available OnLine/Secure supports Informix's entire line of SQL-based application development tools. These include the fourth generation language, INFORMIX-4GL, and any of the company's embedded SQL precompilers such as INFORMIX-ESQL/C, INFORMIX-ESQL/COBOL, INFORMIX-ESQL/Ada and INFORMIX-ESQL/FORTRAN. OnLine/Secure also supports a large number of third-party tools. "Not only do we provide tools that run with OnLine/Secure, but we provide an easy migration path from INFORMIX-OnLine to OnLine/Secure so our customers don't have to recode their applications and sacrifice features and functionality when they want to add security features," Varadarajan said. Designed to Meet U.S. And European Government Specifications OnLine/Secure versions 4.1 and 5.0 are designed to meet the high security class requirements of B1, B2, B3 and C2 as defined by the US Department of Defense "Orange Book," a standard for secure operating systems, and the Trusted Database Interpretation, or "Lavender Book," a standard for secure database products. They are also designed to meet the F(B1)/E3 rating, a database specification defined in the European Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria (ITSEC). OnLine/Secure version 4.1 is the first and only database to be rated B1 and C2 secure by the National Computer Security Center (NCSC). Through the NCSC's Rating Maintenance Phase (RAMP), the B1 and C2 rating will be maintained for version 5.0 and future versions of OnLine/Secure. OnLine/Secure 5.0 is currently undergoing evaluation at the B2 level by the NCSC and the F(B1)/E3 level by European ITSEC. Pricing, Availability OnLine/Secure is now available on hardware platforms from AT&T, Data General, Digital Equipment Corporation, Harris, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Santa Cruz Operation and Sun Microsystems. Pricing for OnLine/Secure begins at $6,250 and for INFORMIX-STAR/Secure at $830. About Informix Informix Software, Inc., provides the most complete and productive database technology to build, deploy, run and evolve applications. Informix products include powerful distributed database management systems, robust application development tools, and graphical- and character-based productivity software for delivering information to every significant desktop platform. With corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Informix has European headquarters in London, and Asia/Pacific headquarters in Singapore. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: HP NetMetrix now runs on Solaris 2.x From: neeraj@nashua.hp.com (Neeraj Sangal) HP NETMETRIX APPLICATIONS NOW RUN ON SOLARIS 2.x Hewlett Packard Company announced that HP NetMetrix applications 3.10, which make an integrated tool set for monitoring and analyzing distributed heterogeneous networks, now run on the Solaris 2.x Operating System from Sun Microsystems. HP NetMetrix Applications ------------------------- HP NetMetrix includes five appliations for monitoring and analyzing Ethernet, Token-Ring and FDDI networks. The RMON/SNMP-compliant HP NetMetrix also includes MIB extensions, which make it a powerful tool set. The HP NetMetrix applications include the following: - Internetwork Monitor - collects data from RMON agents running on each segment of the enterprise. The internetwork monitor software integrates and correlates this data to provide complete end-to-end visibility of a multisegment network. Traffic patterns can be seen at every layer of the OSI stack. A user can switch between a media-access-control view, which shows traffic going through routers and gateways, and a network view, which shows end-to-end traffic, or apply filters to see only traffic of a given protocol or suite of protocols. The user can determine the performance of the local and remote segments and the throughput of wide area network connections. - NFS Monitor - measures and graphs NFS load, response time, retransmits, rejects and errors by server, client, NFS procedure or time interval. The powerful correlation facility lets the user explore client/server load distribution, compare server performance and evaluate NFS enhancement techniques. Users can optimize network traffic, network load balancing and performance tuning. - Load Monitor - measures and graphs traffic by source, destination, time interval, protocol or packet size. The ability to correlate traffic statistics allows the user to pinpoint load patterns precisely for troubleshooting. - Protocol Analyzer - contains seven layer decodes for all major protocol suites, including TCP/IP, NFS/SunRPC, DECnet, DEC LAT, SNA, Novell, XNS, Banyan Vines, AppleTalk and ISO, for network troubleshooting. - Traffic Generator - simulates load and test-protocol implementation to enable network capacity planning. Complete flexibility over variables such as bandwidth, packet sequence and conditional responses is available through a simple programming interface. - Power Agent - continuously monitors and analyzes all protocol layers of all packets in real time in order to collect data for all applications. HP NetMetrix agents are completely RMON compatible. US Prices and Availability -------------------------- HP J2505A NetMetrix Internetwork Monitor 3.1 $3995 HP J2506A NetMetrix Load Monitor 3.1 1995 HP J2507A NetMetrix NFS Monitor 3.1 1995 HP J2511A NetMetrix Protocol Analyzer 3.1 3995 HP J2512A NetMetrix Traffic Generator 3.1 995 HP J2513A NetMetrix Power Agent 3.1 995 HP NetMetrix 3.1 is available now. NetMetrix 3.1 is also available for SunOS 4.x.x. For more information call (603) 888-7000 or send mail to info@nashua.hp.com. Hewlett-Packard is an international manufacturer of measurement and computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality and support. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP has 94,900 employees and had revenues of $16.4 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Purify for Solaris 2 From: ashish@pure.com (Ashish Mathur) Org: Pure Software Inc. Address: 1309 S. Mary Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Phone: (408) 720-1600 Email: info@pure.com Pure Software Inc. announces the availability of the award winning Purify for Solaris 2. Purify uses Object Code Insertion Technology to determine incorrect memory access errors in your C, C++ programs at run-time. For details please contact: Ashish Mathur ------------- Director, Technical Services (408) 524-3093 ashish@pure.com ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. 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