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About Solflower Corporation
HISTORY
Solflower Computer Inc., a leading provider of third party Sun add-on products, was founded in early 1989 by Mr. Kim Vu. As a California based manufacturer,
Solflower provided memory design, peripherals, and various hardware bus architecture add-on products for Sun Workstations since it's inception.
In 1996, Solflower introduced a cluster file system for Solaris called Sharefs. Since 1997, the focus has shifted to the development of bus bridges, including PCI-VME, CompactPCI-VME, and nexus device drivers for the Solaris platform. In early 1999, Solflower released the Ultra VME-10, a Sun Ultra 10 with built-in VME connectivity.
The primary mission of Solflower is to design, market, and support the highest-quality systems and peripheral add-ons for industrial computer applications, focusing on Sun compatibillity. Solflower will continue to deliver software and/or hardware solutions that cost-effectively facilitates RTOS upgrade, integration, and application.
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Product History
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1989 - Formed with two Sun ex-employees.
1990 - First product - SUN 3/50 Memory Expansion: Provides 4/8MB expansion for Sun 3/50 workstations. Thirty thousand Sun 3/50s needed to be upgraded to 8 or 12MB to run with SunOS 4.x.
1991 - Sbus-to-VME Bus converter: Connects VME peripherals to SPARCstation 1 and 2. Provides excellent solution for VME applications to run on SPARC. Sun introduced Sbus to replace the power hungry VME hardware. Sbus-to-VME allows VME hard/software to run without rewriting a new driver.
1992 - SPARCstation with built-in VME connectivity: Provides SPARC 2 and 10 with a three slot 6U VME in a single, double height "pizza" enclosure. It provides a complete solution for VME desktop computing. A version of this workstation was expanded to use on SPARC IPX, SPARC 5 and SPARC 20. Also a rack-mount, called the SFVME-810, was designed with 21 VME slots.
1995 - Storage Crossbar: Multi-host SCSI Controller allows 16 workstations to share 56 SCSI devices without accessing the net. The UFS is replaced by SFS (Shareable File System) to solve the cache coherency in the UNIX file system.
1996 - PCI-to-VME converter: Allows UltraSPARC machines to connect to VME64. VME is the field proof industrial controller. Now VME64 extends the performance of VME to 70/80MB/sec. The UltraSPARCs need a 64bit I/O for its class.
Fibre Channel network is also a fast growing sector. Solflower will extend the file sharing idea with Fibre Channel technology
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