Safe Software FME 2006 GB

Safe Software Inc. (Canada) its upcoming release FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) technology will process an unprecedented volume of spatial data. This improved performance is the result of enhancements that make FME 2006 GB Large Address Aware, allowing it to access significantly increased memory resources when running on selected 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Microsoft WindowsT operating system.

Traditionally, FME running on 32-bit versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system could access a maximum of 2GB of available memory; the remaining 2GB were reserved for kernel operating processes. FME 2006 GB takes advantage of the Windows /3GB switch that divides the available 4GB of memory into 3GB for user applications and 1GB for kernel processes. The user installs the /3GB switch by making a simple change to their operating system's boot.ini file prior to processing large datasets. When run on 64-bit versions of Windows, FME 2006 GB automatically has 4GB of user application addressable memory available.