Itanium is the first generation product processor based on IA-64 architecture. ORC(Open Research Compil-er )provides an open source IPF(Itanium Processor Family)research compiler infrastructure. We have compiled andrun NAS Benchmarks on the Itanium machine. This paper briefly describes the performance of orcc, sgicc and gcc inthe following 3 ways: execution time, compilation time, and executable file size. The results show that orcc has near-ly the same performance as sgicc, which is 2 fold faster over gcc in the aspect of execution time. We also find that evenwith the best-optimized program, the utilization ratio of process resources is no more that 70%.
This paper presents a new integrated information retrieval support system （IIRSS） which can help Web search engines retrieve cross-lingual information from hereto geneous resources stored in multi-databases in Intranet. The IIRSS, with a three-layer architecture, can cooperate with other application servers running in Intranet. By using intelligent agents to collect information and to create indexes on the-fly, using an access control strategy to confine a user to browsing those accessible documents for him/her through a single portal, and using a new cross-lingual translation tool to help the search engine retrieve documents, the new system provides controllable information access with different authorizations, personalized services, and real-time information retrieval.
