By Dallas Finn & Chang Li
A key need for the enterprise is finding the most effective way
to process large files and get systems interfaced to different
databases. Typically this means adopting new platforms and
integrating new software applications. Neatware's MyrmecoX*
suite for Tcl, which, thanks to some porting work done with the
assistance of the
Intel® Early Access Program(now the Intel® Software Partner Program),, now runs well
on Intel's Itanium® processor. This allows users to
capitalize on the Itanium processor's extensive and fast arrays
(hash table), large file processing, and fast speed. And with
the recent release of the Intel Itanium 2 processor, which will
run programs ported to Itanium systems with 1.5x or more the
performance improvement, enterprises can see even better
results.
"Developers can access, split, and merge very large files and
transmit them through FTP automatically. This greatly reduces
the error rate of file processing and conversion during
integration, not to mention making the entire integration much
more manageable," said Chang Li, president of Neatware and
technical manager of the company's software product
development.
Neatware builds software for multimedia, network content
management, and enterprise application integration tools. The
company's MyrmecoX suite for Tcl (Tool Command Language)
applications provides a productive tool and extensible
components based on Tcl for Enterprise Application Integration
(EAI), High Performance Web Service, and Interactive
Testing.
Tcl is a language that provides "glue" for application
integration. But the limitation of 32-bit systems makes it
difficult for it to handle very large files. That's where
Intel's Itanium processor comes in. The new Explicitly Parallel
Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture allows a high level
of parallelism to speed up the execution of instructions, while
the 64-bit address space and high memory bandwidth enables
large and fast data processing in memory.
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