Convex has not announced when this will be ready. Disk performance is slow and needs to be improved. FDDI performance needs to be improved. Convex is rewriting the network subsystem. Paging is still very slow.
More work needs to be done on the virtual memory system.
We need tools to monitor overall memory demands on the system, disk and network performance, to help us better able to configure the system. We also need tools to assess the system resources used by user programs over the lifetime of their execution. The Fortran compiler is improving quite nicely. We continue to receive a new release of the compiler about every other month. On a single processor, the Convex Fortran compiler now produces executable code at the same speed as HP's newest Fortran compiler.