Robelle Products on the Charon-HPA/3000

As you may be aware the ZELUS project, by Stromasys was announced publicly in 2010. The goal of the Zelus project was to run the unmodified MPE/iX OS and all of it's tools and applications on an standard server platform. This project was successful with the full boot of MPE/iX and execution of hardware diagnostics on an Intel core I7.

Stromasys has started a Field Test phase since September 2011,of a virtual HP e3000-A400 and MPE/iX OS. We have installed and been testing our products and made them available on a test virtual server. So far the test has been relatively issue free. We did bring the system down once with a large and fast read, but Stromasys had the issue fixed over a weekend.

So far the response to issues has been fantastic and follow up from Stromasys has been very attentive!

It is fascinating to know that this all works on an Intel box:

:run qedit.pub.robelle

Qedit/iX. Copyright Robelle Solutions Technology Inc. 1977-2008 Type ? for Help 
(Version 5.8 Expiring) Expires in 49 days
Today's Hint. To Text in a data file, use TEXT xxx,UNN (ignore sequence 
numbers).

/run suprtool.pub.robelle

SUPRTOOL/iX/Copyright Robelle Solutions Technology Inc. 1981-2011.
(Version 5.4.01 Expiring)  TUE, DEC 13, 2011,  1:19 PM  Type H for help.
Today's Hint. To print on A4 paper with your LaserJet, add 2000 to the PCL 
code in the List command.  To select the ASCII character set, add another 
1000.
>base macrpt.macsdata.sgaii,5,reader
>form sets

Database: MACRPT.MACSDATA.SGAII

                      Set       Item             Entry    Load   Entry
Sets:                 Num Type  Count  Capacity  Count    Factor Length  B/F
   OFFER-MAST         1   A     1      13007     1198     9  %   4       97
   EDP-MAST           2   A     1      145640    19941    14 %   2       156
   INIT-ORDER-FILL    3   DDX   12     1066095   50392    5  %   34      53
   INIT-UNIT-FILL     4   DDX   15     36000000  1620706  5  %   42      40
   CUST-MAST          5   A     1      11062160  5856315  53 %   2       94
   PURGE-XREF         6   DDX   8      30600000  15238014 50 %   34      60
   CUSTOMER-LETTERS   7   DDX   6      5004970   0        0  %   20      85
   CHANNELVIEW        8   DDX   6      70081308  0        0  %   26      54
   EMAIL-PREF         9   DDX   10     25000302  0        0  %   75      17
>get init-order-file

Error:  Dataset is not in the database
>get init-order-fill
>num 10
>list
>xeq
>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (1) >OUT $NULL (0)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 1
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 5599
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 0              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 0
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 0              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 0
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100410

>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (2) >OUT $NULL (1)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 0
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 0
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 1              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 9598
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 0              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 0
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100413

>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (3) >OUT $NULL (2)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 1
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 15755
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 0              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 0
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 1              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 5298
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100414

>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (4) >OUT $NULL (3)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 1
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 5598
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 0              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 0
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 0              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 0
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100417

>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (5) >OUT $NULL (4)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 0
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 0
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 1              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 23752
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 0              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 0
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100419

>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (6) >OUT $NULL (5)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 2
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 27996
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 0              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 0
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 0              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 0
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100425

>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (7) >OUT $NULL (6)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 0
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 0
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 1              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 19198
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 0              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 0
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100426

>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (8) >OUT $NULL (7)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 2
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 14198
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 0              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 0
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 0              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 0
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100427

>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (9) >OUT $NULL (8)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 0
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 0
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 1              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 6798
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 0              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 0
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100505

>GET INIT-ORDER-FILL (10) >OUT $NULL (9)
OFFER-NO        = D0SNAT25       COMPANY         = 01
DIVISION        = 01             SHIP-ORDERS     = 1
SHIP-DOLLARS    = 11199
SPLIT-ORDERS    = 0              SPLIT-DOLLARS   = 0
CANCEL-ORDERS   = 0              CANCEL-DOLLARS  = 0
BO-ORDERS       = 0              BO-DOLLARS      = 0
DATE-PROCESS    = 20100509


Warning:  NUMRECS exceeded; some records not processed.
IN=11, OUT=10. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

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We intend to be ready for the January 2012 launch of a single CPU configuration on a standalone Linux host or as a VMware client. If you have interest in trying our products on your field test machine then please let Neil Armstrong know at neil@robelle.com know and we can set up a trial for you on your test machine.

We likely do not have to do any changes in this scenario but we are still testing and trying out certain functionality on the PA_RISC emulator, especially those things that drive IO and or memory.