swoyer@masscomp.westford.ccur.com (Ted Swoyer) (06/25/91)
SIM/SPECTRUM(TM) Strategy Offers Road Map for Meeting
Simulation Application Challenges
TINTON FALLS, NJ, June 18, 1991 - Concurrent Computer Corporation (Concurrent)
today announced SIM/SPECTRUM, a total systems strategy offering a wide range
of hardware and software products for simulation and training systems builders.
SIM/SPECTRUM enables developers to upgrade and modify existing simulators and
training systems, maintain concurrency between training simulators and actual
devices, speed simuator development, and reduce life cycle costs.
The SIM/SPECTRUM strategy offers a complete selection of current products
combined with a clear direction of future products designed to provide a total
development and delivery environment for real-time simulation builders. "The
SIM/SPECTRUM strategy is a continuum of past, present and future products
from Concurrent," stated Linda Lewis, Senior Product Manager for Scientific
Languages. "The strategy underlines Concurrent's commitment to understand the
needs of our simulation and training system builders and to provide solutions
that meet those needs." SIM/SPECTRUM is comprised of standards-based hardware,
the families of SIM-7000 and SIM-8000 computers, RTU(TM) (Concurrent Computer
Corporation's UNIX(R) operating system enhanced for real-time demands),
Synthetic Period Scheduler, C3Ada(TM) Language System, real-time CASE tools,
and a CASE framework.
State of the Simulation Industry
SIM/SPECTRUM strengthens Concurrent's position as a leading supplier of
computer solutions for the worldwide US$936 million simulation and training
computer systems market. Concurrent's SIM/SPECTRUM addresses the full range of
technology challenges affecting simulator applications such as flight
simulators, power plant simulators, weapon systems trainers, tank and vehicle
simulators, and avionics development.
"SIM/SPECTRUM fills the gap with a total systems strategy of hardware and
software," said Lewis. "Until today, no one single vendor has addressed both
development and deployment for the simulation and trainer systems builder."
As a multinational corporation, Concurrent is aware of the trends that affect
computer system requirements for the simulation and training market, which is
expected to grow at a compounded rate of 10.3 percent over the next five years.
In particular, competitive pressures are forcing simulator developers to
deliver simulators in 25 percent less time than two years ago. Competitive
pressures are also challenging developers to reduce life cycle costs and
increase performance by taking advantage of newer, faster hardware. As hardware
becomes outdated and developers incorporate new hardware, the resulting
systems software incompatibility makes revising original application software
a necessity.
At the same time, simulation and training builders face productivity challenges
related to long development cycles as software applications become increasingly
complex. For example, simulator developers must maintain concurrency between
training systems and delivered systems as features, functions, and variants
become available. In addition, software must be maintained, updated and
expanded in functionality to keep pace with long simulator life cycles. Today,
the quantity and complexity of software advances outpaces the customer's
expected maintenance costs for the simulator's life cycle.
Coping with the Real-Time Simulation Software Crisis
The SIM/SPECTRUM strategy includes a complete range of products that eliminate
simulation software development hurdles. Concurrent's C3Ada Language System
is the industry's first validated Ada(TM) compiler on Motorola's 68040
processor under ACVC 1.11. The company's complete suite of software tools for
developing and monitoring real-time Ada applications improves productivity,
shortens development time, and reduces the life cycle costs of simulator
development.
SIM/SPECTRUM also offers a CASE environment specifically designed for building
simulators. The developer using CASE has full access to Concurrent's RTU (Real-
Time UNIX) operating system, which adds real-time and multiprocessing
capabilities to industry-standard UNIX. RTU significantly enhances application
development productivity as it offers real-time extensions such as
fixed-priority scheduling, fast, deterministic context switching, a fast file
system, and fine-grained parallelism. Additionally, RTU permits development
and real-time environments to execute simultaneously.
Using state-of-the-art CISC and RISC technology, Concurrent offers a scalable
multi-processor architecture to address the broad performance demands required
for simulation and training applications. The SIM/SPECTRUM strategy includes
Concurrent's family of SIM-8000 systems based on the MIPS R3000 processor
and the family of SIM-7000 systems based on Motorols's 68040 processor.
Concurrent Computer Corporation, headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey,
is the leading supplier of high-performance, real-time computer systems
worldwide. The company's products, marketed through the commercial, federal,
and real-time technical business lines, provide real-time solutions to the
financial, communicaitons, public sector, technical, aerospace, and simulation
markets. Its common stock trades on NASDAQ under the symbol CCURC.
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Contact: Leslie Smith/Linda Lewis
Concurrent Computer Corp.
(908) 758-7572
Malinda Banash/Michele Frost
The Weber Group, Inc.
(617) 661-7900
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C3Ada, RTU, and SIM/SPECTRUM are trademarks of Concurrent Computer Company.
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