CHARON™-AXP/ES40 for Linux NCE (Non-Commercial, Experimental Use Only)

CHARON-AXP/ES40 for Linux (NCE) is a virtual Alpha ES40 system for X64 Linux made by Stromasys, built for testing and experimental purposes only, to enable prospective users to learn more about the benefits of CHARON Cross-Platform Virtualization. CHARON-AXP/ES40 for Linux NCE supports up to four AXP CPUs, up to 2GB of RAM (automatically set depending on host memory), two emulated SCSI hard drives, a CD-ROM, and a network adapter. For host systems with four cores or less, the virtual Alpha reduces its number of CPUs to the number of host cores, minus one, for stability reasons. This implementation will not work on single-core, hyper-threading, or 32-bit systems. CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE will run for 30 days before shutting down automatically and requiring a service disrupting restart to begin working again, and is thus for experimental and trial purposes only.

The software was tested on Fedora Core 10, OpenSUSE 11.1, and Ubuntu 8.10. Unlike the commercial versions of CHARON-AXP, the NCE version does not use CPU acceleration technology. Our commercial CHARON-AXP products provide 400+ MIPS on an Intel Core i7 3.2 GHz host, versus approximately 50 MIPS for the CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE version.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE is for Non-Commercial and Experimental use ONLY.

Stromasys makes no warranties or statements of future support for CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE.

·         CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE is a hobbyist-grade non-commercial version of our CHARON Cross-Platform Virtualization Software. This product is intended solely for the purpose of individual education and is not authorized for use in Commercial Production environments.

·         CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE is provided on an “AS-IS” basis.

·         CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE is NOT SUPPORTED and NO WARRANTIES are stated or implied.

·         NO INSTALLATION or TRAINING SUPPORT is provided with CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE.

·         CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE and all non-commercial versions of our software perform many times slower (3 to 10 times slower) than our commercial CHARON versions.

·         CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE will expire after 30 days of use and will automatically take down the system, forcing a disruptive restart that will result in system outage.

·         CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE does not include all of the features and functionality of our commercially available CHARON products, and the usable configuration is limited to 2 disks, 1 network adapter, and 1 CD only.

·         This release of CHARON-AXP/ES40 NCE will expire on 12/31/2010, it will be updated before the end of the each year.

CHARON-AXP/ES40 for Linux NCE technical information, host system requirements, and installation/configuration instructions can be found here. (NB login required)

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Please send all requests and feedback to nce@stromasys.com