Rogue Wave Software, Inc. has teamed with other commercial companies and government agencies to tackle a challenging computing issue for the Air Force Space Command Project in a way that has turned the notion of high performance computing on its ear.
As a part of a challenging risk reduction prototype effort, Rogue Wave is working with one of the Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC), the MITRE Corporation. Rogue Wave and MITRE are demonstrating that functionality that has required a large mainframe environment due to the complexities of the processes can now be managed with an Intel® Xeon® processor-based server environment and the right software. The challenge with moving from the mainframe to a network of smaller, less expensive hardware is that the smaller servers get much of their computing power from “multi-core” chips, which the legacy software was not architected to leverage.
