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Concert/C 4.0: A Tool for Distributed C Programming

The full version of this announcement is available.

We announce a new release of Concert/C, a programming tool for distributed programming in heterogeneous systems. Concert/C 4.0 is available for non-commercial use without charge. It runs on AIX, IRIX, OS/2, Solaris, and SunOS. Comprehensive documentation is available, including a Tutorial and User Guide, and a formal specification of the language. Concert/C systems are composed of communicating processes, which are written as sequential C programs. Concert/C provides primitives to create and terminate processes, connect them together, and communicate between them, so that programmers can explicitly express parallelization and distribution. Concert/C processes can run on a heterogeneous set of machine architectures and operating systems, and communicate over multiple RPC and messaging protocols.

Platforms
The current release of Concert/C runs on and interoperates among AIX 3.2 on RS/6000, SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.3 on Sparc, OS/2 2.1 on PCs, and Irix5 on SGI hosts.
Obtaining Concert/C
Concert/C is available for experimental non-commercial use free-of-charge. The up-to-date Concert/C documentation is available by anonymous ftp. It is also available by sending an email request to concert-c@watson.ibm.com (if using Internet) concrt-c at watson (if using VNet or Bitnet mail) and specifying which system you would like Concert/C for. It is important that prospective users of Concert/C refer to the full version of this announcement for the list of possible choices of system and conditions of use.
Interacting with us
If you plan to write Concert/C programs, please let us know via one of the two email addresses above. We will add you to the Concert/C mailing list and inform you of Concert/C developments.

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