Maximize Application Performance
Create faster applications with less work by utilizing
Sun™ Grid Engine software and Rogue Wave Hydra
Increasing dependence on technology within Most importantly, a service grid runtime
business enterprises, academic institutions, provided by Rogue Wave Hydra employs
and research organizations continues to concurrency without the need to explicitly
drive requirements for IT solutions that program multithreading in the application.
support greater transaction volumes and Rogue Wave Hydra allows developers to
faster throughput. High volume transaction break applications into core services that are
loads can quickly reach bottlenecks within reassembled at runtime, vastly lowering the
traditional single-threaded application effort to achieve service-level parallelism.
architectures, causing organizations to fail to
meet required service levels. In order to reach Optimize the service grid
top performance, many organizations are Running pieces of an application on different
shifting toward application architectures that systems simultaneously can improve
leverage parallelism and the full capabilities overall throughput. However, effectively
of multithreaded processors and grid processing Rogue Wave Hydra jobs along
processing environments. with other types of workloads submitted to a
Combining Sun Grid Engine software and Rogue Wave
Hydra offers organizations a simplified, cost-effective route
Highlights
to creation of a high-performance application architecture.
• Transform existing single-threaded Create high-performance applications compute grid requires intelligent distributed
software into high-performance Reconstructing an application to better resource management. To help this effort,
distributed applications without leverage the power of parallel processing can organizations can take advantage of the Sun™
completely rewriting code lead to dramatic performance gains. However, Grid Engine software, a resource and job
• Optimize the use of compute the cost and effort of modernizing existing management tool that provides policy-based
resources through intelligent, policy- applications or creating new code can be a workload management. Sun Grid Engine
based workload management barrier to moving forward. Rogue Wave Hydra software aggregates compute resources and
• Maximize the efficiency of is an integrated development environment dynamically distributes jobs — identifying
application execution by keeping (IDE) and deployment framework for C++ and adequate compute resources on the network
runtime environments resident Java™ platform services that can dramatically and sending tasks out to suitable servers.
within the compute grid simplify the transition. The Rogue Wave This process helps organizations increase
• Improve developer productivity with Hydra IDE is built on the open source resource utilization and eliminates the
an IDE that offers automatic code Eclipse project which can improve developer need to dedicate any portion of the service
completion, syntax checking, and productivity through C++ and Java code grid to a particular application set. By
advanced design and testing tools generation, a visual Web Services Description creating a shared service grid environment,
• Create a grid environment that can Language (WSDL) design tool, and automated organizations can optimize the use of IT assets
maximize application performance deployment to runtime. and maximize ROI.
and throughput while helping
minimize operational expense
Sun Microsystems: Solution Brief

2 Maximize Application Performance
Simplify the transition to a faster application Optimize application performance • The Eclipse-based IDE supports creation of
architecture In a grid environment, matching the right both C++ and Java projects.
While many applications can improve compute resources to each job is critical • Rogue Wave Hydra utilizes both the
performance by taking better advantage to maximizing application performance. Service Data Object (SDO) specification
of the benefits of multicore processors and Utilizing an asset with inadequate compute and the enterprise-class database support
grid environments, organizations often lack power can introduce processing bottlenecks. of SourcePro DB to provide a datasource-
the resources to commit to the conversion Alternatively, over-allocating resources independent database representation.
task. Rogue Wave Hydra simplifies efforts wastes valuable compute cycles and prevents • Sun Grid Engine software gives
by supporting the execution of multiple other more intensive workloads from getting administrators the flexibility to accurately
instances of a service across threads, started. Sun Grid Engine software can help model their computing environments as
processes, or servers without the need to best manage the workloads created by Rogue resources, and to translate business rules
change business logic. The Eclipse-based IDE Wave Hydra, optimizing the use of resources into policies that govern the use of those
included within Rogue Wave Hydra reduces and helping make the most of every available resources.
the time required to configure and manage compute cycle.
multiple runtime instances, and provides a Reduce operational costs
convenient way to view the status of Rogue Specific features of Rogue Wave Hydra also In today’s challenged economy, every
Wave Hydra runtimes. To support added help optimize application performance. organization seeks to reduce costs through
reliability within this processing model, For example, Rogue Wave Hydra provides smarter use of resources. Sun Grid Engine
Rogue Wave Hydra offers several high parallel message processing with the ability software helps organizations more easily
availability options and can be customized to to guarantee order of execution, and supports allocate compute resources evenly across
support additional variants. Persistence and high-performance service interaction by a compute cluster, assuring availability
restoration of messages is supported, as is allowing services written in C++ and Java of the disk space, processing power, and
message replay. code to directly invoke each other in memory. memory needed for optimal performance
In addition, Rogue Wave Hydra delivers and successful job completion. Running
Speed application execution high-performance XML parsing through applications created with Rogue Wave Hydra
In a typical grid, a job dispatches to a server, low memory usage and optimization for on a Sun Grid Engine cluster that utilizes high-
executes, and fully exits. The integration very large XML documents. Through the performance, energy-efficient Sun systems,
of Rogue Wave Hydra and Sun Grid Engine intelligence of Sun Grid Engine software and such as Sun servers with chip multithreading
software offers the opportunity to improve the high-performance features of Rogue Wave technology and other innovations, can
upon this traditional approach. Rather than Hydra, organizations can speed application result in better throughput, higher compute
running a job and exiting, Rogue Wave Hydra processing and get more work done faster. capacity utilization, and reduced energy and
applications can execute within a Sun Grid operating costs.
Engine environment as a long-running server. Gain valuable flexibility
As a result, the engine can place new work The flexibility offered by Sun Grid Engine Sun and Rogue Wave
on a server without the need to replace software and Rogue Wave Hydra helps Rogue Wave Software offers development
the runtime environment. This model can organizations to more easily meet specific tools that simplify and accelerate the creation
save time, leading to significantly better business needs. The following list provides a and enhancement of high-performance
application performance. Furthermore, many few examples. applications. Sun provides enterprises with
grid calculations perform in recurring flexible, scalable, and reliable platforms and
loops — taking the result and putting it • Rogue Wave Hydra offers out-of-the-box software for building effective infrastructure
back into the same job. Using a long-running support for popular message transports, solutions. Together, Sun and Rogue Wave
Rogue Wave Hydra server helps improve and can be easily customized to support Software can help organizations simplify and
performance by avoiding the need to shut additional protocols. speed the creation of valuable IT solutions
down and restart the executable repeatedly. that deliver top performance.
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