RTI Introduces Advanced Tools for Development and Optimization of Distributed Real-Time Applications
Boston, MA, September 25, 2006 --(PR.com)-- With the introduction of the RTI Developer Platform tool suite, Real Time Innovations (RTI), The Real Time Middleware Company, is taking a major new step to extend its leadership in the rapidly emerging market for high-performance messaging and software integration solutions for time-critical distributed applications.
Until now, the development and integration of scalable distributed applications in which real-time message and data throughput are critical issues have been extremely complex and cumbersome, sometimes with costly and unpredictable results. To minimize this risk, RTI is the first to offer a complete and dedicated tools solution enabling the development, debug, analysis and optimization of distributed systems and applications that must deal with multiple sources of event-driven, time-critical data and seamlessly tie complex networks of independent devices into a logical and manageable whole.
“The availability of tools is often why developers choose a specific technology. The benefit of using an open-standard data distribution technology is certainly appealing to customers such as government agencies and large corporations when scalability and reliability are paramount,” noted Chris Lanfear, director of the Embedded Software Group at Venture Development Corporation. “Additionally, tools are becoming an indispensable part of the day-to-day quality assurance that customers need for their systems engineering processes.”
RTI Developer Platform tool suite targets a development environment based on the open-standard Data Distribution Service (DDS) and addresses two specific problems facing designers of real-time distributed systems. Firstly, as the size and functionality of a distributed system increases, applications generally do not scale well. Secondly, application developers are forced to address performance requirements of the system through careful use of techniques such as optimized coding, thread management and awareness of network topology at the application-code level.
By having to implement and enforce performance requirements at the application-code level, the developer pays the penalty of an inherently unstable code base, since the initial performance level is likely to change unpredictably as network topologies and application requirements change over time. This traditionally has required further work at the application-code level to correct the problem.
The DDS standard’s publish-subscribe communications model combined with its Quality-of-Service (QoS) capabilities addresses both these issues. The model manages performance in these complex scalable distributed systems by allowing an abstracted view of the network whereby the developer only has to specify the performance requirements between any two points. Then, using QoS, the developer is able to initiate negotiation of a service capability to meet the needs of the application.
To address system scalability issues, DDS provides an abstracted definition of the distributed system at the data level, eliminating the need for location-specific information to be associated with providers or consumers of the required data. This allows developers to implement an application without regard to the network topology or underlying implementation. Now they just need to know that the information may exist and how they want it to be provided.
The RTI Development Platform environment considerably simplifies the challenge of building these complex, high-performance distributed systems. However as middleware is now taking on many of the tasks previously required of the application developer–such as tracking of information by location, or implicit understanding of the distributed system implementation for the purposes of managing high-performance throughput–the developer now needs tools to better build and validate that the system is working optimally so adjustments can be made, if necessary, to the QoS utilization.
“This launch is a key step in RTI’s open-architecture, data-critical platform strategy for distributed application development. RTI Developer Platform supports a performance-optimized publish-subscribe network infrastructure based on open-standards DDS with tools for distributed system visualization, analysis and real-time debugging,” stated Dr. Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, RTI’s chief technology officer and co-chair of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Special Interest Group. “RTI now offers an extensible, standards-based tools environment that will grow and provide a solution for the design of high-performance, scalable systems for years to come.”
About the RTI Developer Platform
* RTI Developer provides a dynamic view of an active system from a node and data topic perspective. This enables visual validation and debugging of run-time behavior.
* RTI Scope allows live monitoring of message and data transmissions with time histories to enable debug of publisher-subscriber interactions.
* RTI Protocol Analyzer permits developers to monitor physical network traffic and provides the detailed packet and timing information that allows the optimization of a system implementation. This ensures the most efficient use of the underlying physical carrier(s), thus enabling fine-tuning for performance purposes.
Price & Availability
RTI Developer Platform tool suite is available immediately for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris hosts. Pricing begins at $11,995 for three developers, which includes one year of maintenance and support.
RTI Data Distribution Service is licensed separately. It is available today for many operating system and processor combinations, including Windows, Windows CE and Windows Mobile; Solaris; Linux; LynuxWorks LynxOS; Wind River VxWorks; and Green Hills INTEGRITY configurations. Development packages begin at $84,600 USD, which includes a comprehensive architecture study, two days of customer-specific training, one week of follow-up consulting, and one year of maintenance and support.
About RTI
RTI provides the highest-performance messaging and software integration solutions for real-time applications, data and devices. RTI software and services have been deployed in a broad range of industries including defense, intelligence, simulation, industrial control, transportation, finance and communications. Founded in 1991, RTI is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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RTI, Real-Time Innovations, The Real-Time Middleware Company and RTI Data Distribution Service are registered trademarks or trademarks of Real-Time Innovations, Inc. All other trademarks used in this document are the property of their respective owners.
RTI North American Sales Contact: Real-Time Innovations, 3975 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Tel: 408-200-4700.
RTI European Office: Real-Time Innovations, P.O. Box 7302, Milton Keynes, MK13 0QH, Tel: +44 (0) 20 8133 9240.
Media Contacts:
Melanie Gill
Real-Time Innovations
408-200-4760
Barbara Stewart
Patterson & Associates
480-488-6909
Until now, the development and integration of scalable distributed applications in which real-time message and data throughput are critical issues have been extremely complex and cumbersome, sometimes with costly and unpredictable results. To minimize this risk, RTI is the first to offer a complete and dedicated tools solution enabling the development, debug, analysis and optimization of distributed systems and applications that must deal with multiple sources of event-driven, time-critical data and seamlessly tie complex networks of independent devices into a logical and manageable whole.
“The availability of tools is often why developers choose a specific technology. The benefit of using an open-standard data distribution technology is certainly appealing to customers such as government agencies and large corporations when scalability and reliability are paramount,” noted Chris Lanfear, director of the Embedded Software Group at Venture Development Corporation. “Additionally, tools are becoming an indispensable part of the day-to-day quality assurance that customers need for their systems engineering processes.”
RTI Developer Platform tool suite targets a development environment based on the open-standard Data Distribution Service (DDS) and addresses two specific problems facing designers of real-time distributed systems. Firstly, as the size and functionality of a distributed system increases, applications generally do not scale well. Secondly, application developers are forced to address performance requirements of the system through careful use of techniques such as optimized coding, thread management and awareness of network topology at the application-code level.
By having to implement and enforce performance requirements at the application-code level, the developer pays the penalty of an inherently unstable code base, since the initial performance level is likely to change unpredictably as network topologies and application requirements change over time. This traditionally has required further work at the application-code level to correct the problem.
The DDS standard’s publish-subscribe communications model combined with its Quality-of-Service (QoS) capabilities addresses both these issues. The model manages performance in these complex scalable distributed systems by allowing an abstracted view of the network whereby the developer only has to specify the performance requirements between any two points. Then, using QoS, the developer is able to initiate negotiation of a service capability to meet the needs of the application.
To address system scalability issues, DDS provides an abstracted definition of the distributed system at the data level, eliminating the need for location-specific information to be associated with providers or consumers of the required data. This allows developers to implement an application without regard to the network topology or underlying implementation. Now they just need to know that the information may exist and how they want it to be provided.
The RTI Development Platform environment considerably simplifies the challenge of building these complex, high-performance distributed systems. However as middleware is now taking on many of the tasks previously required of the application developer–such as tracking of information by location, or implicit understanding of the distributed system implementation for the purposes of managing high-performance throughput–the developer now needs tools to better build and validate that the system is working optimally so adjustments can be made, if necessary, to the QoS utilization.
“This launch is a key step in RTI’s open-architecture, data-critical platform strategy for distributed application development. RTI Developer Platform supports a performance-optimized publish-subscribe network infrastructure based on open-standards DDS with tools for distributed system visualization, analysis and real-time debugging,” stated Dr. Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, RTI’s chief technology officer and co-chair of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Special Interest Group. “RTI now offers an extensible, standards-based tools environment that will grow and provide a solution for the design of high-performance, scalable systems for years to come.”
About the RTI Developer Platform
* RTI Developer provides a dynamic view of an active system from a node and data topic perspective. This enables visual validation and debugging of run-time behavior.
* RTI Scope allows live monitoring of message and data transmissions with time histories to enable debug of publisher-subscriber interactions.
* RTI Protocol Analyzer permits developers to monitor physical network traffic and provides the detailed packet and timing information that allows the optimization of a system implementation. This ensures the most efficient use of the underlying physical carrier(s), thus enabling fine-tuning for performance purposes.
Price & Availability
RTI Developer Platform tool suite is available immediately for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris hosts. Pricing begins at $11,995 for three developers, which includes one year of maintenance and support.
RTI Data Distribution Service is licensed separately. It is available today for many operating system and processor combinations, including Windows, Windows CE and Windows Mobile; Solaris; Linux; LynuxWorks LynxOS; Wind River VxWorks; and Green Hills INTEGRITY configurations. Development packages begin at $84,600 USD, which includes a comprehensive architecture study, two days of customer-specific training, one week of follow-up consulting, and one year of maintenance and support.
About RTI
RTI provides the highest-performance messaging and software integration solutions for real-time applications, data and devices. RTI software and services have been deployed in a broad range of industries including defense, intelligence, simulation, industrial control, transportation, finance and communications. Founded in 1991, RTI is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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RTI, Real-Time Innovations, The Real-Time Middleware Company and RTI Data Distribution Service are registered trademarks or trademarks of Real-Time Innovations, Inc. All other trademarks used in this document are the property of their respective owners.
RTI North American Sales Contact: Real-Time Innovations, 3975 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Tel: 408-200-4700.
RTI European Office: Real-Time Innovations, P.O. Box 7302, Milton Keynes, MK13 0QH, Tel: +44 (0) 20 8133 9240.
Media Contacts:
Melanie Gill
Real-Time Innovations
408-200-4760
Barbara Stewart
Patterson & Associates
480-488-6909
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