Etnus Announces TotalView for Apple Mac OS X.

NATICK, Mass. -- Etnus, the provider of the most advanced debugger on Linux and UNIX, today announced the general availability of TotalView 7.0, which introduces support for Apple Mac OS X. Other major features include C++ and F90 expression evaluation and graphical interface enhancements.

Apple Mac OS X is fast becoming a desired computing platform for high performance and commercial computing. Software engineers writing complex parallel and threaded code look to Etnus to provide the debugging solution, and today that solution is available on Mac OS X, for both Panther 32-bit and Tiger 32-bit, 64-bit, and mixed 32/64 bit programs. MPI is becoming widely used in HPC on Mac OS X, and TotalView supports debugging of MPI programs here seamlessly on large numbers of processors.

"Keeping pace with the hardware and OS platforms that matter to our customers is a high priority mission for us," comments Mary Kay Bunde, Director of Business Development at Etnus. "Our customers have been telling us they want Mac OS X support. We delivered."

TotalView is a feature-rich, uniquely scalable debugger, capable of handling huge amounts of code, thousands of processes, and enormous quantities of data. It features unrivaled ability to debug threaded code and other forms of parallelism, such as MPI, and is an ideal fit for developers of complex C++ and Fortran applications.

TotalView 7.0 also introduces the ability to write C++ expressions and call C++ functions in evaluation points and in code within TotalView's sophisticated Evaluate Window. F90-specific expression evaluation is also available on all the platforms TotalView supports.

Etnus has also improved the debugging experience for MPI programmers. The TotalView GUI now provides graphical views of MPI processes that enable easy navigation and provide instant displays of state information. The custom group interface has been simplified, and the interface to the Message Queue also has been enhanced.

TotalView is the undisputed debugger of choice for debugging highly scalable and complex code, whether it's multithreaded or based on a multiprocess paradigm such as MPI or OpenMP. Free 15-day fully functional trials are available from www.etnus.com. Prices start at under $1000.

About Etnus

Etnus is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis solutions for complex code. Etnus products provide software engineers with the ability to visualize, control and correct complex applications running on a wide variety of platforms and using one to thousands of processors. They offer significant productivity gains in application development, helping to eliminate the frustration, delays, and headaches inherent in analyzing multi-process, multi-thread, and network-distributed applications containing many lines of code or advanced programming techniques such as MPI, threads, and OpenMP.

Etnus products are used in the development of applications in industries such as weather prediction, film special effects and animation, oil and gas exploration, CAD/CAM software development, automotive, aerospace, finance and telecommunications. Privately held, Etnus offers its expanding product line through worldwide resellers and direct sales.

For more information contact Etnus LLC at: 24 Prime Parkway, Natick, MA 01760; phone: [phone] (U.S.A.), 508-652-7700 (outside U.S.A.); fax: [phone]; web: www.etnus.com; e-mail: [e-mail].