Electric Software, Inc. is a privately held software technology corporation based in Ithaca, New York. Its current products are hpsModeler, system design software for optimally incorporating seasonal thermal storage to match inflexible heating/cooling demand with intermittent renewable-based electric supply; and GlowCode, a performance analysis profiler used in software engineering.
| Company type | Software technology |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1982 |
| Founder | Milton L. Taam |
| Website | electricsoftware |
History
editIn 1984, Electric Software, Inc. commercially launched Electric Desk, one of the first all-in-one integrated office products for the IBM-PC, including a word processor, spreadsheets, databases, and communications.[1] [2] Electric Software, Inc. licensed the Electric Desk program and trademarked name exclusively to Alpha Software Corp, as publisher and distributor.[3] [4] [5] Electric Desk, while owned by Electric Software and marketed by Alpha Software, became known as AlphaWorks.[6] In 1990 the product became LotusWorks, with its sale by Electric Software, Inc. to Alpha Software and then Lotus Software.[7]
Electric Software, Inc. commercially released GlowCode in 1998. GlowCode is a real-time performance and memory profiler used by programmers in the development and optimization of Windows applications.[8] [9] While the profiled application runs, GlowCode shows the duration, frequency and use of function calls, and identifies which functions play the most significant role in time-intensive tasks, which execution nodes are the source of multiple memory leaks, and which allocations are the source of excessive consumption of memory and resources.[10] GlowCode also identifies problems specific to managed code, including boxing errors, and hyperactive and loitering objects.[11] GlowCode customers include the Mathworks (Matlab), Siemens, Oracle, and others.[12] [13]
In 2023 Electric Software, Inc. launched the web application hpsModeler, which simulates the comprehensive set of components that can be leveraged to significantly reduce CO2 emissions in the heating and cooling of large-scale residential and commercial buildings. A key component is seasonal thermal storage with counter-season heat injection or extraction. hpsModeler is used to design cost-effective integrated systems that optimally match inflexible heating/cooling demand with intermittent renewable-based electric supply, with minimal CO2 emissions.[14]
References
edit- ^ Howard A. Karten (September 18, 1984), "Electric Desk", PC Magazine: 60–62, retrieved August 8, 2024
- ^ Dave Cipra (October 15, 1984), "Electric Desk: A sophisticated, attractively price integrated package", Info World: 62–65, retrieved August 8, 2024
- ^ "Electric Desk 1.x". winworldpc.com. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 Electric Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
- ^ "Electric Desk: Simply Powerful", PC Magazine, 3 (17), September 4, 1984, retrieved August 8, 2024,
Electric Desk is a trademark licensed to Alpha Software Corp. by Electric Software, Inc.
- ^ "Electric Desk: Software so revolutionary it won't change the way you work", PC Magazine (August 7, 1984), August 7, 1984, retrieved August 8, 2024
- ^ Palmer, Scott D. (September 12, 1988). "Low-End Package Integrates Surprising Array of Features". InfoWorld: 66–67. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
Alphaworks is an enhanced and renamed version of Electric Desk
- ^ Perrators, Ed (August 1991). "Integrated Software review: LotusWorks 1.0". PC Magazine: 276. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ Riley, John (2007). Writing Fast Programs: A Practical Guide for Scientists and Engineers. Cambridge: Cambridge International Science Publishing Ltd. p. 238. ISBN 978-1904602408. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ "GlowCode: Performance profiler, memory leak detector for C++ C# .NET programmers and QA. Fastest profiler toolset, resource analysis, leak detection for test, tune and optimization". GlowCode. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ "Dr. Dobbs Software Tools Newsletter", Dr. Dobb's Journal, 2002 (September), September 13, 2002, retrieved December 7, 2011
- ^ GlowCode on Softpedia
- ^ "GlowCode". GlowCode. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ Altman, Yair M. (2014). Accelerating MATLAB Performance: 1001 tips to speed up MATLAB programs. CRC Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-4822-1130-6. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ "hpsModeler". hpsModeler. Retrieved August 11, 2024.