"The software pipelines approach opens the door to parallel processing for business," said Rogue Wave Software President Cory Isaacson during his presentation at the SOA Web Services Edge Conference and Exhibtion at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on Monday, June 5. "Performance plus SOA is a real challenge," he noted, "and answering this challenge requires parallel processing for business applications. We’ll never take advantage of multi-core processing without doing this."

Isaacson pointed to famous examples of parallel processing, such as the search for extra-terrestrial life that is shared by innumerable PCs around the world. "But real-world applications for business have loads that are not predictable," he said. "So how can we apply parallel computing to the types of application problem found in the business world?"

He said that enterprise IT managers must be sure that they have business knowledge involving a problem, have the right architecture to solve the problem, and also possess "detailed applications knowledge--where are the bottlenecks, for example, along with all the many other aspects of this knowledge."

Isaacson compared the evolution of software pipelines with fluid dynamics, saying there are "tremendous parallels between them. These laws are easy to understand and easy to apply." He said the essence of these parallels are that input must equal output, that friction resistance limits flow, and that "you don't want a broken pipe!"

In the final analysis, he said, "parallel processing is not like clustering or any othe mechanized ways of doing distributed computing." Isaacson's presentation was carried live on SYS-CON.TV, and the company will be exhibiting its approach during the two days of the conference.