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Hello All, I am Thierry Uso, a telecom consultant. In my spare time, I port open source software on the OpenVMS/Itanium platform. In this post, I present my port of JRuby 1.4.0.

JRuby (http://jruby.org/) is an implementation of the Ruby programming language on top of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). JRuby consists of a Ruby interpreter written entirely in Java and a full AOT/JIT compiler which compiles Ruby code to Java bytecode.

JRuby 1.4.0 supports Ruby 1.8.7 and partially 1.9. Porting this JRuby version was an easy task: No modification of the JRuby code was necessary. The startup scripts of the JRuby tools (interpreter, compiler, console, gem…) were re-written in DCL with the accurate settings of logical names and JVM parameters (http://vmsfree.ouvaton.org/freen/index.php?s=jruby).

JRuby is currently the only way to run modern Ruby applications on an OpenVMS/Itanium platform since no recent version of MRI (the Ruby interpreter written in C) exists on that platform. I performed some preliminary tests which show fair response times but feedback is welcome.

-Thierry Uso

In this short video from HP you’ll see highlights of the Itanium 9300 Processor (aka Tukwila) launch event from San Francisco on February 8th. Kirk Skaugen of Intel introduces the new chip and its place in the market while Martin Fink of HP talks about the two companies’ strategic partnership.

The third video in a series of four featuring Jonathan Eunice, co-founder and principal IT advisor for Illuminata, and Joan Jacobs, Alliance president and executive director, can be viewed below. In this episode, Jonathan highlights the importance of headroom on performance in enterprise servers as user volume and transactions grow and vary over time. See the corresponding slide deck here.

The Itanium platform is already running mission-critical applications for 80% of the Global 100 corporations. And developing countries, like Egypt, are forecasting growth in the enterprise server market in the foreseeable future.

Hazem Amer, Intel Egypt Enterprise Business Development Manager, was featured in a recent article by AMEinfo.com, and gave the following context to the Itanium 9300 launch in Egypt:

Read the entire article from AMEinfo.com here.

In this seven part video series, Ward Ralston, Group Product Manager at Microsoft, answers questions about running Windows Server 2008 R2 on Itanium.

Microsoft SQL Server on Itanium: What are some of the new features that take advantage of the IT Infrastructure?