Appistry Demonstrates World’s Fastest Geocoding Solution at GEOINT 2007 Symposium
Written by Appistry
21 October 2007
ESRI ArcGIS-Based Geocoder Running on Distributed Platform Powered by Appistry Achieves 40,000 Geocoding Transactions per Second
San Antonio, Texas (GEOINT 2007 Symposium) October 22, 2007 – Appistry today demonstrated the world’s fastest commercially available solution for high-volume geocoding at the GEOINT 2007 Symposium in San Antonio, Texas. Geocoding is the process of resolving geographic place names, addresses or other data to geographic coordinates or geocodes, and is a foundational process for both commercial and government users of geospatial data.
The demonstrated solution utilizes Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF) to provide scalability and reliability for a geocoding application based on the industry-leading ESRI ArcGIS 9.2. The geocoding application was developed in hours using ArcGIS, and designed to run on a single computer. Appistry EAF allowed it to be quickly and easily scaled-out across 16 dual-CPU servers.
“With the explosion in available geospatial data, the ability to quickly manipulate it in high volumes has never been more crucial,” says Chris Cappelli, director of sales, ESRI. “Appistry’s ability to take ArcGIS-based processes and easily scale them across many computers creates exciting new opportunities for organizations that depend on geographic information.”
Presented with 1.5 million randomly selected US addresses distributed across 50 states, the distributed solution bulk-coded the addresses in just over 30 seconds. The average rate demonstrated was in excess of 40,000 geocoding transactions per second. Moreover, because the system’s geocoding performance scales linearly as additional computers are added, it is capable of meeting any level of demand.
“ESRI’s ArcGIS product is a de facto standard for companies seeking to take advantage of the wealth of geospatial information available today,” said Sam Charrington, Appistry vice president of product management and marketing. “We’re thrilled that Appistry EAF enables ESRI and its customers to quickly, easily and inexpensively achieve unprecedented levels of scalability, agility and performance.”
Appistry EAF is platform software that simplifies the delivery of highly scalable applications for a variety of data- and CPU-intensive tasks. Appistry EAF works by transparently scaling applications across a pool of inexpensive computers ensuring linear scalability, software-based fault-tolerance and streamlined operations.
ArcGIS is a complete system for authoring, serving, and using geographic information. It is an integrated collection of GIS software products for building and deploying a complete GIS wherever it is needed—on desktops, servers, or custom applications; over the Web; or in the field.
Parties unable to attend GEOINT but interested in learning more about the distributed ArcGIS demonstration can visit Appistry’s Grid Computing for Geospatial Intelligence Resource Center to register for an on-demand Webinar and demonstration.
About Appistry
Appistry's flagship product, Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, delivers the combined benefits of grid computing and virtualization by allowing customers to rapidly create highly scalable service-oriented applications and readily deploy them across a virtualized "grid" of inexpensive computers. As a result, Appistry customers, such as FedEx, Northrop Grumman and GeoEye, are able to quickly and inexpensively bring new capabilities to market, with the agility, dependability and scale demanded by their businesses.
For more information, visit www.appistry.com, or call 888-APP-0111 (888-277-0111).
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