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Real-Time Research at Boston University: Lab Facilities

Lab Facilities
Exclusive Equipment
- Pharos.bu.edu
Pharos, a SPARCstation-10 with 34 megabytes of memory and 6
GigaBytes of Disk Space, is the file server for a VME-based
real-time environment that consists of 4 single-board MicroSparcs,
each with 8 megabytes of memory. Pharos runs full-blown Solaris
(Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.3), whereas each of the 4
single-board machines are to be used with a tailored real-time
version of Solaris. These 4 single-board machines could be
configured to run as a tightly coupled shared-memory multiprocessor
system (using VME backplane communication) or they could be
configured to run as a loosely coupled message-passing
multicomputer (using Pharos' LAN). Pharos itself provides an
additional access to the department's LANs.
Departmental Facilities
Maintainer: Azer Bestavros
Created on: June 6, 1994
Updated on: April 27, 1995