Beamer - Re: "Intel really has to concentrate on delivering a number of competitive solutions, integrating technology from their other research groups. "
How about this:
"What is NAPA?
We recently encountered Intel's new NAPA tool at the Intel Developer Forum last week, and we were so impressed with its functionality, we wanted to share its capabilities with you. (Kudos to Intel Labs developers Jennie Yoder and Jim Chu, Network Performance Manager Frank Hady, and others who may have been involved). NAPA is a free app and open source-- you can download the NAPA executable and source code.
NAPA opens portals into the inner workings of your network. With NAPA, you can graphically see how a various elements of a Web page are sent over time, as well as how it's received. Both of these aspects will help paint a picture of how your web site works--and most importantly, how you can improve it. You can also see differences in how different browsers work with your website.
NAPA is a Windows 2000 open source application (i.e. it only runs on Windows 2000 currently) written primarily in C++, and it allows you to garner all sorts of statistics about the network and its delivery of data. Specifically, the application allows a developer to monitor network usage as well as identify inefficiencies. But what does that really mean? The answer depends on what your role is at your Web site. We'll delve into that a little later.
Since NAPA is open source, you have the choice of either compiling it yourself, or using Intel's pre-compiled version. For this article, I used the pre-compiled version. If you're just starting out in this arena, I recommend following my lead.
NAPA is currently only in version 0.55, so it's brand new. Keep in mind that there's probably a few bugs floating around beneath its exterior.
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