Electric Cloud Releases New Version of Its Software Build Accelerator at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- -- Electric Cloud Electric Cloud, Inc. is a privately held software corporation specializing in high-performance software build tools. Electric Cloud is based in Mountain View, California and currently offers two products. 2.1 Delivers Faster Builds and More Efficient Network Utilization -- Electric Cloud, the software build infrastructure company, today announced Electric Cloud 2.1, which further speeds software builds and improves network efficiency through support for multi-CPU machines in the build cluster, peer-to-peer network (1) A network of computers configured to allow certain files and folders to be shared with everyone or with selected users. Peer-to-peer networks are quite common in small offices that do not use a dedicated file server. communication and file compression See data compression. (algorithm) file compression - The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements. . Electric Cloud 2.1 accelerates the build process in software development by ten to twenty times, virtually eliminating long software build times resulting in greater engineering productivity, faster time to market and improved product quality. "While every other phase of the development process has been accelerated by some type of new technology from rapid application development tools to automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. , the build process has been largely overlooked," said John Ousterhout (person) John Ousterhout - /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: john.ousterhout@scriptics.com. , Electric Cloud CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President. "This has resulted in a time to market and productivity bottleneck A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU surrounding builds that we have begun to eradicate Eradicate To completely do away with something, eliminate it, end its existence. Mentioned in: Smallpox in the last year. With Electric Cloud 2.1 feedback from some of the world's leading software development organizations has resulted in additional features that further decrease build times and increase network efficiencies." The Product Electric Cloud 2.1 is for medium-to-large software development teams unhappy with ever-increasing build times. Electric Cloud 2.1 accelerates builds 10 - 20 times by distributing the software build in parallel across scalable clusters of inexpensive, industry-standard servers. At the core of Electric Cloud 2.1 is Electric Make, which is plug-compatible with existing Make-based build infrastructures so it can be rapidly deployed with little or no change to existing tools or environments. In order to ensure that parallel builds will not break, Electric Cloud has developed a patent-pending dependency management system that captures perfect dependency information by monitoring all files accessed during a build. Electric Cloud 2.1 records and re-uses build dependency information, minimizing the Makefile maintenance required to achieve and maintain build performance. New Features of Electric Cloud 2.1
-- Support for Multi-CPU Nodes
Electric Cloud 2.1 supports multi-CPU servers as nodes in the
build cluster. This allows customers to take advantage of
better price-performance multi-CPU machines and achieve higher
performance with fewer physical machines in the cluster
resulting in easier hardware administration.
-- Peer-to-Peer Network Communication
Electric Cloud now supports peer-to-peer network communication
which increases Electric Cloud's scalability and speed by
allowing build nodes to obtain files directly from other build
nodes in the cluster. This reduces the need to transfer files
over the network from the machine that initiated the build
which allows for configurations with larger clusters of build
nodes.
-- Network File Compression
To reduce network traffic and further speed builds, Electric
Cloud 2.1 compresses files that are being transferred over the
network. This reduces Electric Cloud network traffic by 2 to 3
times, allowing for greater network efficiency and build
speed.
About Electric Cloud Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company pioneering technologies that improve the software development process. The Company was founded to addresses the build related frustrations, delays and resource scheduling nightmares that every software development team endures. Electric Cloud makes products that development teams use to reduce costs, shorten (audio, compression) Shorten - A form of lossless audio compression. time-to-market, and improve quality and customer satisfaction. Electric Cloud 2.1 is currently being deployed at several of Silicon Valley's most widely recognized technology companies. Based in Mountain View, Calif., Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms, Mayfield, U.S. Venture Partners and RRE RRE Red Rock Eater (News Service) RRE Road Race Engineering RRE Remote Roof Easy RRE Residential Real Estate RRE Rise-And-Run-Length Encoding RRE Royal Radar Establishment (Great Britain) Ventures. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at 650-968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com. |
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