CoSORT Shipping New ``V8'' Sort Engine.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MELBOURNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003 Innovative Routines International (IRI Iri (ē`rē`), former city, North Jeolla (Cholla) prov., SW South Korea. An agricultural center and transportation hub, it was absorbed into Iksan. ), Inc. has released CoSORT Version 8 ("V8"), and with it the IT industry's first major sort speed improvement in two years. V8 features a redesigned parallel sort engine for SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , new interfaces for data warehouse developers, and enhanced migration tools for legacy sort users upgrading to CoSORT on open systems. Calling this a "significant performance breakthrough" for "applications with large volumes of data," CoSORT Sr. VP David Friedland added that, "V8 will make the biggest difference in data warehouse staging operations, where growing file sizes challenge shrinking production windows." Highlights are: -- Faster Sort Engine V8's proprietary new SMP sorting techniques are much faster than CoSORT UNIX v7.5.3 and competing sort products now also running on UNIX. Solaris 8 CoSORT 8 sorted 2.4GB in 72 seconds on a Sun E15K using only 2 CPUs and 512GB of RAM, versus 91 seconds under v7.5.3, a 20% improvement. On 6 CPUs, the same job took 39 seconds. Linux CoSORT 8.1.1 on a 4-way Itanium processor sorted a random, fixed-length 5GB data file in 9:08 versus 16:39 for CoSORT 7.5.3, a 45% improvement. CoSORT helped IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) set the last TPC-H TPC-H Transaction Processing Council Ad-hoc/decision support benchmark (computer performance) record by sorting at a 4-CPU rate of 2.4GB/min on a NUMA-Q web server. -- Callable SortCL API For data warehouse architects and software developers requiring an integrated data transformation engine, CoSORT's award-winning sort control language (SortCL) DML/program is now callable through an application program interface (API). ISVs as well as end users can now embed CoSORT's "sortcl_routine()" within their programs to simultaneously select, sort, join, convert, cross-calculate, aggregate, and reformat their data to speed loads, match and track transaction data, build structured web-ready reports, hand-off data to BI tools, etc. -- Sort Conversion Offerings In addition to drop-in sort replacements for the SAS System, Ascential's DataStage and SyncSort UNIX, CoSORT 8 will have an "advanced external sort procedure" for Informatica's PowerCenter, hooks to other ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. tools, and a drop-in replacement for MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. sorts via data-sharing software. -- New CoSORT Platforms In addition to being the first (and only) sort vendor to support all commercial UNIX and Wintel platforms, CoSORT V8 has also been ported to HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. on Intel Itanium 2 and Linux on IBM's zSeries mainframe. |
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