PrismTech Celebrates OpenSplice DDS Open Source Anniversary by Releasing v5.1 - the Most Advanced DDS Middleware Implementation on the Market

OpenSplice DDS v5.1 Introduces Advanced Support for Ultra-Large-Scale Systems, Dependable Systems and Resource-Constrained Systems

Boston, MA, USA and Edinburgh, UK — April 29, 2010 — PrismTech™, a world leader in high-performance software platform and integration solutions, today celebrated the first anniversary of OpenSplice™ DDS Open Source by launching version 5.1. This new version includes many innovative features and enhancements that make it the most advanced DDS middleware implementation on the market.

OpenSplice DDS is the most advanced, complete, and widely used (commercial and open source), implementation of the Object Management Group™’s (OMG™) Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems (DDS) specification.

OpenSplice DDS v5.1 delivers many new innovative features that improve its ability to scale-up to very large-scale systems, that support dependable systems as characterized by stringent reliability and fault-tolerance requirements, and that adapt to environments characterized by constrained networking resources.

Ultra-Large-Scale Systems. OpenSplice DDS v5.1 is equipped with a set of features that make it the ideal DDS implementation for large-scale deployments. These include a new dynamic discovery protocol that introduces the concept of scopes to control the macro-topology of the large-scale distributed system, thus providing full control over what is discovered while assuring timely and scalable dynamic discovery in very large-scale systems.

Dependable Systems. OpenSplice DDS v5.1 introduces several innovations developed specifically to support dependable systems, such as the CoFlight European Flight Data Processor. These innovations include quorum data writers, read/write access control, and persistent snapshots.

Resource Constrained Systems. The OpenSplice DDS networking service already allows for optimized bandwidth usage, v5.1 furthers these capabilities by introducing compression. In typical use cases, the compression provided by OpenSplice DDS allows the amount of data sent over the wire to be reduced by several orders of magnitude, thus reducing to a minimum the network bandwidth usage.

Along with the innovations brought by v5.1, OpenSplice DDS users can also leverage the increasing number of innovations developed by the Open Source community, such as the Apache Camel connector, the standalone RESTful connector, the SimD ISO C++ API, and several others listed at http://www.opensplice.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Community/RelatedProjects

“This has been a terrific first year for OpenSplice DDS Open Source, we’ve seen the community really engaging with the technology and contributing to it. We’ve seen a steep rise in the use of OpenSplice DDS in its traditional markets and also its swift adoption in totally new domains, some of which we would have never thought of before,” said Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., OpenSplice DDS CTO. “With v5.1 we’ve made another big step forward, delivering to the community the most advanced DDS implementation available on the market!”

The OpenSplice DDS v5.1 software can be downloaded from http://www.opensplice.org

PrismTech have also produced a video that introduces the new features of OpenSplice DDS v5.1. The video can be viewed at: http://www.blip.tv/file/3552756

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