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www.appistry.comThe Fabric of Business
Simplifying Development of High-Volume
Geospatial Intelligence Applications
Bob Lozano
Rocket City Geospatial Conference 2007
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Case Study Overview
• Data: Raw satellite image is retrieved from SAN and broken up into tiles
• Process: Tiles are processed using proprietary GeoEye algorithms for sharpening, geocorrection, etc.
• Result: Tiles are reassembled and stored back in SAN
Challenges:
• Multi-core / SMP development complexity• Risk, cost and agility of traditional platforms• Meeting customer SLAs
Results:
• Imaging applications now able to process in excess of 5 TB of satellite imagery per day
• Developers able to focus on core competencies• Capital savings greater than $1.2 million• Easily meet customer requirements for
maximum processing time
Appistry EAF at GeoEye
Data Process ResultThe leading provider of satellite imagery for government and commercial applications, GeoEye is building its next-generation image processing applications on Appistry EAF.
“ By relying on the application fabric to provide scalability, reliability and manageability, we can leave our infrastructure concerns behind and focus on providing maximum value to our customers. ” – Ray Helmering,VP Photogrammetric Engineering at GeoEye
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VP of Engineering: My ChallengesEnormous increases in data flow …
• New satellites (data
sources)
• Sophisticated analytics
• Internet distribution
• New business models
• System to System (SOA)
• Customer Expectations
•Mobile Access
• Constant change
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Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric A grid-based application platform that dramatically simplifies the development
and deployment of agile applications for high-volume data/transaction processing
Well, take a look at an “application fabric”
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“Googlization” Simplified
• Effortless scale, on-demand• Decreased time-to-market• Agile & resilient• Commoditized infrastructure• Pervasive Web services• Unified deployment model across
technology platforms
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Traditional Processing Pipeline
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SAN
4x Fiber ChannelFile I/O
Automated Image Processing System:Receive XML WorkOrderRead Input Images from SAN ~17 GBSharpen ImageGeocorrect ImageCompress ImageWrite results to SANGenerate XML WorkerOrderResponse
Upstream System
XML Work Order
High End Silicon Graphics Server:64 Processors256 Gigbytes RAMAltix OSApproximate Cost: $2,000,000
typical of the industry
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Start With Application Fabrics
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SANSAN
Tiling FabricTransformation Fabrics
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Processing scalability
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Psychological Sticking Points …
• I/O Scalability• Development Complexity• Operational Complexity• Reliability
• and don’t forget the cost reductions …
reality favors the application fabric in every dimension!
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→application fabric→application fabric→application fabric→application fabric
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Appistry EAF EnergySaver
• New add-on product for fabric power management
• Customer sets policies for minimizing energy consumption, while ensuring application performance & service levels
• No impact to application developers or SLAs!
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Conclusion
Application fabrics, increase capability, lower cost, reduce time to market—i.e., are better in every dimension—and are very well suited to geospatial intelligence applications.
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“ By relying on the application fabric to provide scalability, reliability and manageability, we can leave our infrastructure concerns behind and focus on providing maximum value to our customers. ”
-Ray Helmering, VP Photogrammetric Engineering GeoEye
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