Sun opens Fortress' sauce

The outfit has released a Open Sauce prototype Fortress "interpreter", a programming tool to execute Fortress programs line by line.

The project's leader Eric Allen said that he wanted to encourage academics and other interested partied to have a go at the new language.

Fortress grew out of a Defence Department-funded supercomputing project, and is designed for the high-performance computing market.

However as more desktops go for multi-core environments it is possible that Fortress could be used to take advantage of the increased performance, Allen thinks.

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