ULTRAMAIN 500 Pits v9 vs. v8 in Speed Test for the Ages

Okay, we'll admit it. We're a little excited about ULTRAMAIN v9 over here. Can you blame us? ULTRAMAIN v9 is sleeker, and faster than our previous iterations. It's only natural that we would want to brag about it, just a little. "Yeah," you say, "but what about cold hard facts? You can brag all you like-- I want figures." Well, my skeptical friend, we've got some figures for you. And they're dazzling. USI's Senthil Nathan recently performed a series of speed tests pitting ULTRAMAIN v8 against ULTRAMAIN v9. The two products were tasked with churning through the same sets of data, while Nathan waited, stopwatch in hand, to see how fast each product took.  The results are in, and they're fairly conclusive- v9 wins, hands-down. Wanna see? Sure you do! Reliability Calculations For the first test, Nathan ran the end of month reliability calculations through both v8 and v9. These calculations were originally developed and implemented in ULTRAMAIN v8. Now that the ULTRAMAIN v9 architecture has matured to the point that it can handle exact same calculations, with Java-based improvements! "We went through a series of trials to ensure that the v9 calculations provide the same results as the v8 calculations," explained Nathan. "Only, v9 performs the calculations much, much faster." You can see the results below: "On average, the ULTRAMAIN v9 calculations were 170% faster than ULTRAMAIN v8," Nathan summarized. "What's most exciting is how v9 did in terms of some of the longer calculations versus v8." Indeed, as the graph shows, ULTRAMAIN v8 had the hardest time calculating the reliability statistics for August, 2008, clocking in at a calculation of around 60 minutes. ULTRAMAIN v9 chewed through the same calculations in about 23 minutes, a whopping 262% improvement! The next two longest calculation periods for ULTRAMAIN v8, Jan 2008 and Nov 2007, showed 204% and 208% improvements, respectively. A precise rendering of percentage improvement can be seen here: Tree Viewer Performance Next, Nathan turned his attention to the Assembly viewer in both products. If you've ever opened the config tree for a parent asset--say an engine or an airplane--in ULTRAMAIN v8, you know that it can sometimes take a while. What about v9? Using the same five engines with the same number of installed components, Nathan opened the tree viewer in both products, and analyzed the time both spent opening.

"Our engines had over 120 components installed on them," Nathan pointed out. "Even so, v9 loaded up the assembly near-instantly."

Again, the winner is clear! ULTRAMAIN v9 showed a vast improvement in performance over v8. In fact, v9 loaded the component tree 800-1000% faster than its v8 predecessor! So on the plus side, no more waiting around for your configurations to load up. On the minus side... well, there isn't a minus side. There's just ULTRAMAIN v9, blazing new trails at unheard of speeds.