Enhancing source code management performance

Source code and asset management applications are prevalent in today’s games industry. Both are core to building games applications, so improving SCM/AM performance even slightly will have a substantial impact on development costs, productivity and time-to-market, as well as employee satisfaction. IBM solutions have increased SCM efficiency from 30-35 percent and bandwidth utilization to 80-85 percent. The result — a huge cost savings and faster time-to-market.

Perforce™, an industry-standard source code and asset management application, is an I/O intensive application, yet most Perforce implementations are architected to maximize processor performance. IBM Servers are optimized for I/O, specifically IBM System x and attached to IBM DS4800 or other IBM storage products. IBM solutions have increased Perforce efficiency from 30-35% bandwidth utilization to 80-85% resulting in huge cost savings. In addition, add IBM BuildForge to automate many of the manual processes required to build a game.