BEAM AlphaCDev

GNU 'C & C++' development system for Unix X-Windows

Introduction

AlphaCDev is a C and C++ software development system with full X-Windows X11.6 support designed to "supercharge" the performance of a Unix Workstation by the addition of parallel processing sub-systems based upon the powerful DEC Alpha risk processor.

The AlphaCDev development system allows Unix developers to readily take advantage of multiple alpha performance. AlphaCDev provides a high degree of compatibility with the Unix development environment. This allows current X-Window applications to be ported to an alpha system with the minimum of changes.

Supplied Components

• Industry standard GNU C and C++ compilers.
• Unix SVID interface library
• X-Windows X11 Release 6 interface library
• A set of Unix compatible development tools.

Alpha applications have access to the resources of the host Workstation via a resource server and may utilise the extensive capabilities of the host platform, include networking and X-windows. Likewise Unix processes may communicate with alpha processes to take advantage to the dramatic computational capability of such systems.

Benefits

• Multi-user access to Networked alpha resource.
• Scalable increase in performance by the addition of more alpha processors.
• Binary portability of produced applications between Unix hosts..

Applications

• Image Processing.
• Mathematical Modelling.
• CAD.
• Simulation.
• Data acquisition& processing for Unix systems.
• General Number Crunching.

System Pre-Requisites

Supported Hardware

• AD66/ISA AlphaData PC Card.
• AD66/PCI AlphaData PC Card.
• AD66/HTRAM AlphaData HTRAM Card.

System Support

• Linux Elf systems

Allied Products

AlphaMotif Motif toolkit
AlphaDebug Source CodeDebugger