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Intel Demonstrates High-Performance Business Intelligence with Torrent Systems' Orchestrate

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Intel Corporation has featured Torrent Systems' Orchestrate in a demonstration of high-performance Business Intelligence on Intel Architecture at Oracle OpenWorld Japan. The demonstration showcased the capabilities of the Orchestrate-enabled data warehousing application on an Intel Pentium(R) II Xeon(tm) processor-based four-way server running a Red Hat version of Linux and Oracle 8.05. The application accessed 180 GB of retail warehouse data from the Oracle database, achieving a throughput of 11.7 GB/hour by utilizing all four processors.

Key Takeaways:

  • Intel demonstrated the capabilities of Torrent Systems' Orchestrate in a high-performance Business Intelligence application on an Intel Pentium(R) II Xeon(tm) processor-based four-way server.
  • The Orchestrate-enabled application achieved a throughput of 11.7 GB/hour by utilizing all four processors, dramatically reducing processing times.
  • Intel and Torrent Systems have partnered to enable users to more easily realize the benefits of fully parallel, high-performance Business Intelligence solutions.
  • The demonstration showcased the capabilities of Orchestrate, a development and runtime environment that enables high-performance Business Intelligence.
  • Organizations can benefit from using Orchestrate to answer complex business questions, including identifying their most profitable customers and understanding product purchasing patterns.
  • The partnership between Intel and Torrent Systems involves joint marketing activities and an equity investment from Intel in October 1998.
  • Orchestrate allows organizations to reduce the time needed to process large volumes of data and execute complex analyses by allowing Business Intelligence applications to execute on all processors of multiprocessor systems.

Statistics:

  • The Orchestrate-enabled application processed 180 GB of retail warehouse data from the Oracle database.
  • The application achieved a throughput of 11.7 GB/hour by utilizing all four processors.
  • The partnership between Intel and Torrent Systems involves an equity investment from Intel, unclear amount.

Sources:

  • "Intel Executes High-Performance Data Warehousing Application on Intel Pentium(R) II Xeon(tm) Processor-Based Server." Business Wire, 16 Dec. 1998, www.businesswire.com/news/home/19981216006075/en.
  • "Intel and Torrent Systems Extend Partnership to Enable High-Performance Business Intelligence Solutions." Business Wire, 29 Oct. 1998, www.businesswire.com/news/home/19981029005798/en.

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