Linda and Paradise Now Available for
Alpha/ Linux







New Haven, CT, October 22,1999…Scientific Computing Associates
today announced that Linda, its parallel and distributed computing development
tools, are now available for Alpha/ Linux. The products also support Beowulf
clusters, networks of PCs that can be used as an alternative for supercomputing-type
processing. Linux versions of Linda and Paradise are currently used by
several organizations, including Amerada Hess, Dow Chemical, and Emory
University.
Linda and Paradise facilitate the development parallel
and distributed computing applications. Linda, introduced in 1987, was
the first commercial product to implement virtual shared memory (VSM),
facilitating the use of supercomputers and large workstation clusters.
Linda technology
is embedded into parallel versions of Gaussian applications,
the computational methodology for which John Pople won the 1998 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry. Paradise, a next-generation evolution of Linda and introduced
in 1993, supports multiple VSMs and also includes features such as assigning
tasks to available processors, balancing data loads, and restarting or
reassigning tasks that have failed.
Linda and Paradise are used for applications requiring
financial and risk analysis, computational chemistry and biology, seismic
analysis, EDA, and fluid dynamics. SCA clients include Lexis-Nexis, Lehman
Brothers, Enron, and Motorola.
Founded in 1981, SCA has pioneered the commercial use
of parallel and distributed computing. With its introduction of Linda,
the company was the first to offer businesses a cost efficient, packaged
product to harness the potential of supercomputing. The company’s expertise
and ongoing research into these fields has resulted in various government
research projects and development and marketing partnerships with IBM,
Compaq, Decisioneering, and Mentor Graphics. For more information about
SCA, contact Jerry Lipchus, Director of Sales at
203 777 7442 or visit our web site at:  http://www.sca.com/
Linda for Linux is also available on the RedHat 6.0 CD