System requirements and supported hardware

What specific environments does Gedae support?

Gedae is available for Sun workstations and Force SPARC CPU-5V, CPU-7V and CPU-8VT boards (VME bus slot-one controllers) running Solaris 2.6, 7, or 8 with X11R5, Motif 1.2, and VME drivers. Gedae is also available for PC workstations running Windows 2000 or Redhat Linux 7.1 (customers report success with other Linux variants as well). For all systems an ANSI C compiler for the target processor is required.

The Gedae runtime kernel is available for a variety of target multiprocessor hardware. The table below shows the specific COTS products currently supported. More platforms will be supported in the future. Use of Gedae on these products requires the vendor's associated software such as compilers and, optionally their optimized function libraries. See the Gedae installation manual for further requirements.

Can Gedae be ported to custom hardware?

Yes. There are two types of hardware Gedae may be ported to:

Is there a system requirement of using a slot-1 controller?

No, however, there are two related questions - what are the host requirements for the Gedae development environment, and what are the host requirements for the launch package? The Gedae development environment requires a processor running either the Solaris, NT, or Linux operating system. There must also be support to either:

1. directly start processes on the target hardware from that processor and to communicate with the target processor or to
2. start processes on an intermediate processor, which can in turn start a process running on the target processors (of course, the host must be able to communicate with the intermediate process, and the intermediate process with the target processes).