Intel Investors - Real 64 bit Application Demoed on IA64 ITanium system at LinuxWorld.
Most of the news media missed the "details" - that real-world, compute-intensive software was actually demonstrated running on an SGI ITanium system - to do flight crew optimizations and scheduling !
"Powerful ILOG CPLEX Software Used to Show Off New IA-64 Linux Operating System
Compute-Intensive ILOG CPLEX One of First Commercial Products Ported To Trillian/IA-64 Linux
ILOG (Nasdaq: ILOG) reported that its ILOG CPLEX optimization software was selected to show the robust performance of the upcoming IA-64 Linux platform in a public demonstration being held today at Linux World Expo in New York. The most compute-intensive commercial software available, ILOG CPLEX was the best choice for displaying how Linux can solve real-world business problems. ILOG CPLEX is among the first commercial software products to be ported to this platform, which is also called Trillian Linux and was developed for Intel's forthcoming 64-bit server and workstation architecture, the IA-64 Intel(R) Itanium processor, by the Trillian Project, an industry consortium.
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February 02, 2000 13:56
Powerful ILOG CPLEX Software Used to Show Off New IA-64 Linux Operating System
Compute-Intensive ILOG CPLEX One of First Commercial Products Ported To Trillian/IA-64 Linux
NEW YORK, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- ILOG (Nasdaq: ILOG) reported that its ILOG CPLEX optimization software was selected to show the robust performance of the upcoming IA-64 Linux platform in a public demonstration being held today at Linux World Expo in New York. The most compute-intensive commercial software available, ILOG CPLEX was the best choice for displaying how Linux can solve real-world business problems. ILOG CPLEX is among the first commercial software products to be ported to this platform, which is also called Trillian Linux and was developed for Intel's forthcoming 64-bit server and workstation architecture, the IA-64 Intel(R) Itanium processor, by the Trillian Project, an industry consortium.
Only ILOG CPLEX is being used in this demo, which solves complex optimization problems, including calculating the optimal, most efficient crew schedule for a large commercial airline and military personnel deployment. The software and operating environment are running on an IA-64 Linux server from Trillian Project member SGI. Other Trillian members include IBM, Intel, Red Hat, SuSE Inc., TurboLinux and VA Linux.
The magnitude and financial impact of the problems addressed by ILOG CPLEX have made this software a critical component in the decision processes of many Fortune 500 companies. According to AMR Research, advanced planning and scheduling, a widely deployed type of application often using ILOG optimization, can generate up to 300 percent return on investment given its ability to reduce costs, improve product margins and reduce labor. ILOG CPLEX can examine millions of pieces of data involved with making decisions, evaluating various alternatives and selecting the best solution -- often in minutes or a few hours.
Optimizing Crew Schedules Saves Millions of Dollars
In the crew-scheduling problem being demonstrated today on the SGI server, ILOG CPLEX will optimize the scheduling of flight crews by selecting their tours of duty and assigned sequences of flights. The software will compare millions of possible pairings of crews, preferences and assignments, quickly locating the optimal schedule. The goal is to provide the best matches of crews and flights at the lowest cost. ILOG CPLEX is used by most all major airlines within their crew scheduling applications, where optimizing a schedule's efficiency by just one percent can reduce costs by tens of millions of dollars annually.
Among other common problems being solved by optimization are planning and scheduling global supply chain logistics, shipping delivery routes and communications network capacities. Emerging applications for optimization are calculating optimal fullfilment logistics for e-businesses is yield management for hotels, airlines and cruise ships that determines how many seats or rooms can be allocated at what price.
ILOG CPLEX Tracks Moore's Law
ILOG CPLEX is unlike most software today in terms of its rate of speed improvements; software typically rides and in many cases squanders hardware performance improvements. The basic measure for hardware is Moore's Law, which states that microprocessor speed usually doubles every 18 months. However, ILOG CPLEX is virtually alone among software in that it has echoed microprocessor speed-ups during the last decade, becoming more than 122 times faster in less than 10 years. CPLEX algorithms have constantly pushed the performance envelope in order to keep expanding the horizon of solvable business problems.
The status of ILOG CPLEX as a speed engine has led to its wide use by hardware vendors as a benchmark to test the performance of the latest high-end servers. On the customer end, greater processing power enables ILOG CPLEX optimization components to contribute toward even higher ROI for enterprise applications. The greater the available horsepower, the larger can be the volume, depth and scope of the data being evaluated, thereby improving the achievable results.
ILOG Reaffirms Linux Support
ILOG recently completed porting its entire produce line to Linux -- including its embeddable optimization, visualization and rules engines in Java and C++. Today, ILOG products support the SuSE and the latest version of the Red Hat Linux operating systems. ILOG CPLEX has been successfully ported to Trillian IA-64 Linux and will support that platform when it becomes commercially available. ILOG has worked with Linux since the operating system's early days and it has become the main development environment among some of ILOG's optimization engineers. ILOG CPLEX was one of the first commercial software products to support Linux in 1996.
About ILOG
ILOG is the world's leading supplier of C++ and Java software components, according to International Data Corp. (1999). ILOG's embeddable optimization and visualization software components dramatically shorten the development time of enterprise software applications in the supply chain, telecommunications, transportation, utility and financial services industries. In addition to optimization in which the company enjoys an 85 percent market share, ILOG is playing an active role in the emergence of a e-Business software components market, by providing high-performance rules engines for web personalization and high-end configuration software for online selling. Another key business segment is visualization, where ILOG's products have become the de facto standard for network management user interfaces. ILOG was founded in 1987 and now employs approximately 470 people in seven countries. Visit www.ilog.com for additional information.
NOTE: ILOG is a registered trademark of ILOG. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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