Thinking Machines Corp says its promised GlobalWorks software for harnessing Sun Microsystems Inc’s Ultra 1 servers and other systems into parallel application processing arrangements is still in beta test but will ship in around one month (CI No 2,836). It is initially up under Solaris, but Thinking Machines also has Silicon Graphics Inc implementing the software across its symmetric multiprocessing clusters by the year-end. TheBedford, Massachusetts company says it has other partners in hand. Its massively parallel Connection Machine-derived Darwin data mining tools are just now going into beta test and should be ready by early summer for Sparc and by the year-end on multiple systems. Thinking Machines has tapped Ralphe Wiggins from data mining software firm Information Harvesting Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts to spearhead its data mining systems business.
