Garnet and determine the composition of garnets in terms of percentages of end-member species within an individual gem. Almandine, sometimes incorrectly called almandite, is the modern gem known as carbuncle (though originally almost any red gemstone was known by this name). The term "carbuncle" is derived from the Latin meaning "live coal" or burning charcoal. The name "Almandine" is a corruption of Alabanda, a region in Asia Minor where these stones were cut in ancient times. Chemically, almandine is an iron-aluminium garnet with the formula FeAl(SiO); the deep red transparent stones are often called precious garnet and are used as gemstones
Gemstone (database) web application server platform. (VisualWave and VisualWorks are now owned by Cincom.) GemStone played an important sponsorship role in the Smalltalk Industry Council at the time when IBM was backing VisualAge Smalltalk, now owned by Instantiations, Inc. After a major transition, GemStone for Smalltalk continued as "GemStone/S" and various C++ and Java products for scalable, multitier architecture distributed computing systems evolved into the "GemStone/J" product. This in turn gave rise to "GemFire", an early example of a Data Fabric for complex event processing (CEP), event stream processing (ESP), data virtualization, and distributed caching. On May 6, 2010, SpringSource, a division