Compatible OS: Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux

Compatible IBM Software:IBM Rational ClearCase

Software builds are the last opportunity for real, measurable improvement for most development organizations, and yet are one of the least addressed parts of the lifecycle. Development process improvements and automated tools can only do so much to improve productivity if builds are still limiting your throughput.

The ElectricAccelerator solution breaks the “build bottleneck” by accurately executing parallel builds across scalable clusters of inexpensive, standard hardware that reduce build times by as much as 20x. The centerpiece of this solution, Electric Make®, is a plug-compatible version of the software build tool Make. It plugs seamlessly into existing Make-based build infrastructures, without modifying existing build scripts and tools to distribute the work of the build to a cluster of servers. Performance and throughput can be further increased by adding servers to the cluster, providing a reliable, scalable build solution.

The latest addition to this solution is ElectricInsight™, a software build visualization tool that depicts how the build is structured and run, empowering build managers to pinpoint performance problems or conflicts in a parallel build. An add-on to the ElectricAccelerator solution, ElectricInsight mines the information produced by Electric Make to provide an easy-to-understand, graphical representation of the build structure for performance analysis.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• ElectricAccelerator’s unmatched dependency management system allows vastly greater scalability than ever before, delivering improvements of up to 20x over a sequential build, with no changes to existing build scripts or tools.
• Dependencies are automated for both full and incremental builds, so ElectricAccelerator eliminates the need for frequent, full builds for small changes. You can drive product quality earlier in the project lifecycle by having developers do builds prior to code check-in.
• ElectricInsight provides detailed information on each job on each node of the build cluster, helping users identify which jobs are being performed, when, and with what files, for at-a-glance diagnostics. Instead of manually pouring over tens of thousands of lines of information in a build output file, error detection and performance tuning that once took hours or days can now be done in seconds.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Runs on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Windows
• Compatible with Make and Make variants, including IBM Rational ClearMake