Cydrome Inc.
Cydrome Inc.
Status:
Company no longer in business.
Overview of Organization:
Cydrome were formerly known as AXIOM Systems.
Platforms Documented:
Contact Address:
(no longer useful)
CYDROME Inc.
1589 Centre Pointe Drive
Milipitas, CA 95035
Tel 408-945-6300
Fax 408-262-8938
See Also:
Cydrome CYDRA 5
Overview of Platform:
VLIW Directed Dataflow Architecture.
Compute Hardware:
Interconnect / Communications System:
Memory System:
The main memory has a sustained transfer rate of 400 Mbytes/sec
and consists of 8 to 256 Mbytes with up to 64-way interleaving.
There is also a support memory of 8 to 64 Mbytes that is optimized
for rapid data access. The virtual address space is 2 Gbytes.
Benchmarks / Compute and data transfer performance:
Operating System Software and Environment:
The Cydrix 5.3 operating system is a compatible extension of
AT&T UNIX System V.3. Extensions include support
for transparent multiprocessing, dynamic load balancing,
extent-based file systems, buffered and unbuffered I/O,
asynchronous I/O, disk striping, batch queue facilities, TCP/IP,
remote graphics library, performance profiling tools, and a socket
library compatible with Berkeley 4.2 UNIX.
Cydrix Fortran 77 incorporates the ANSI Fortran 77 standard
with DEC, IBM, UNIX, and Cydrix Fortran extensions. It generates
code for the Interactive Processors and schedules code execution
on the Numeric Processor. There is a source level debugger.
Networkability/ I/O System / Integrability / Reliability /
Scalability:
Peripheral devices supported include disks of capacity 830
Mbytes/drive with a 2.5 Mbyte/sec transfer rate. There are RS-232C and
Ethernet connections and a 6250 bpi tape drive with 75 ips in
start/stop mode.
The central system unit has dimensions 66" x 61" x 34" and
weighs 1350 lbs.
Notable Applications / Customers / Market Sectors:
Overall Comments:
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