Torrent Systems, originally named Applied Parallel Technologies (APT), was a parallel computing software company founded in 1993 by Edward Zyszkowski, with the first employee being Rob Utzschneider. Torrent received initial funding from the NIST Advanced Technology Program.[1]
| Defunct | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | Ascential Software |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | Edward Zyszkowski Robert Utzschneider |
| Products | Orchestrate |
Number of employees | 32 |
Products
editThe company's product was a parallel flow-based programming system called Orchestrate. The product enabled users to assemble a program using predefined components (called operators) connected by virtual datasets in a manner similar to Unix pipelines. Here is a simple example:
generator
-records 50
-schema record (recNum: int32;
firstName: string[max=20];
lastName: string[max=30];)
|
peek
-name -all
This script contains two operators: the generator operator (which creates test data) and the peek operator, which displays the contents of the records it receives. The generator will create 50 records, each with three fields; the peek operator will display their contents.
Torrent was acquired by Ascential Software in late 2001[2] for about $46 million; Orchestrate became part of Ascential's DataStage data integration system, which became part of IBM's Information Server product when Ascential was acquired by IBM in mid-2005. Torrent technology became the Parallel Engine in the Information Server architecture.
References
edit- ^ a b "Performance of 50 Completed ATP Projects Status Report - Number 2 NIST SP 950-2". National Institute of Standards and Technology. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ^ Whiting, Rick. "Ascential Buys Torrent Systems, InformationWeek, November 28, 2001". UBM Webtech. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
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