Etnus announces TotalView 6.2 for Intel Itanium 2-based systems.

Etnus recently announced the release of TotalView 6.2, which includes much-anticipated support for Intel Itanium 2-based systems.

TotalView is a full-featured, source level, graphical debugger providing software engineers with complete control over threaded and parallel applications written in C, C++ or Fortran. Its features simplify debugging and analysis of applications and offer unrivaled support for code that uses multithreading and MPI on both distributed and shared memory computers. With advanced features not found in any other debugger, TotalView is unrivaled in its ability to help find bugs fast.

The Itanium 2 processor's floating-point performance, 64-bit addressing, and large cache memory are well-suited to a wide range of large, multi-process technical computing applications. "Etnus is experiencing increasing demand for TotalView from a wide range of industries, such as imaging, petroleum, digital animation, finance, and telecommunications," comments Chris Doehlert, CEO of Etnus Inc. "These markets are finding that their codes are becoming more and more complex and they seek TotalView's advanced debugging and data analysis capabilities for their complex code."

"TotalView is a key component in providing ABAQUS developers with a common Unix/Linux development environment," states Matt Dunbar, Senior Engineer at Abaqus. "ABAQUS is a multi-language application supported on eight different Unix/Linux platforms. Totalview provides a common link between most of these platforms, allowing developers to write and debug code on the different platforms without a significant change in working environment. Totalview's flexibility makes it the one tool for all occasions."

TotalView supports Intel compilers for Linux on both the Intel Itanium and IA-32 architectures, such as the Intel Pentium 4 processor.

"The Itanium 2 processor delivers outstanding performance, scalability and value for high-end enterprise and technical computing applications. Now supporting Intel Itanium 2 processors, TotalView allows developers to harness leading edge debugging features for complex 64-bit multiprocessor platforms and enhance the ability to migrate current 32-bit applications to 64-bit," said David L Brown, general manager of Intel's Software Enabling Division.

Complexity, parallelism, and the sheer size of an application can add to the challenge programmers face in making application logic work properly. TotalView is designed for such environments, particularly when parallelism is employed and in situations where developers are taking applications from 32-bit systems to larger, faster 64-bit systems such as those based on the Itanium 2 processor.

When porting to 64-bit architectures, software engineers commonly experience problems with constructs like C pointers as well as data originally written to align on 32-bit boundaries. TotalView's advanced language support, parallel support, and data analysis features ease the debugging involved in these projects.