Etnus to Offer TotalView(R) Debugger on IBM Deep Computing Solutions.NATICK, Mass. -- Today, Etnus announced the availability of TotalView[R] at IBM's Deep Computing Capacity On Demand Center in Rochester, Minnesota running on the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Blue Gene[R] platform. Etnus is also announcing a remarketing agreement with IBM in which IBM and Etnus will develop a "go to market plan" to promote the use of TotalView for a number of IBM platforms, including AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , Intel and Power-based Linux clusters, Power-based AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. [R] systems, and IBM's powerful Blue Gene[R] solution. The TotalView debugger has had great success on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: see Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (body) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. Blue Gene/L, the world's fastest supercomputer[1] where it has been used to debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. ultra-scale jobs in which over 8,000 processors are orchestrated. Etnus and IBM have collaborated on the TotalView platforms since 1995. Today, TotalView is used by numerous IBM customers to quickly find elusive bugs and memory leaks for more productive software development. TotalView is used on three of the most powerful computers in the world - all IBM systems - according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. TOP500 list of supercomputers[1], including both Blue Gene/L and ASC Purple ASC Purple is a supercomputer that is installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. The computer is a collaboration between IBM Corporation and Lawrence Livermore Lab. It was installed in July 2005. systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the eServer pSeries 655 at the Naval Oceanographic Office. "The proliferation of multi-core chips, multi-threaded code, multi-processor systems and cluster computing Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications is a journal for parallel processing, distributed computing systems, and computer communication networks. make fast, accurate debugging a considerable challenge," said Jim Chafel, Etnus vice president of business development. "We are pleased to help IBM offer its customers a software development productivity tool uniquely equipped to meet that challenge and designed to reduce the development cycle." "IBM is committed to provide the world's fastest, most powerful computers, to facilitate scientific discovery, business competitiveness and homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States ," said Herb Schultz, Deep Computing Marketing, IBM. "By marketing TotalView, as well as making it available at our Deep Computing Capacity on Demand centers, we have another capability that can help empower our customers to meet the rigorous debugging demands of these powerful systems." Etnus has numerous customers using TotalView to debug sophisticated programs developed on IBM systems. California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. , for example, uses TotalView on 128 processors of an IBM Power POWER is a RISC instruction set architecture designed by IBM. The name is a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC. 5 machine running AIX -- for a shock tube simulation that provides insight into Richtmyer-Meshkov (shock-driven) instabilities and turbulent mixing physics. Users there find the integrated, interactive memory debugger A memory debugger is a programming tool for finding memory leaks and buffer overflows. These are due to bugs related to the allocation and deallocation of dynamic memory. Programs written in languages that have garbage collection, such as managed code might also need memory within TotalView to be a valuable development tool. "Our adaptive mesh refinement
In numerical analysis, Adaptive mesh refinement is a method of adaptive meshing. application involves dynamic memory consumption that, under extreme runtime conditions, can cause the application to perform very slowly or crash altogether," notes senior scientist Sharon Brunett. "TotalView enables us to detect and avoid these problems by monitoring memory usage at specified key stages in the application. In addition, it helps us understand differences in memory consumption when identical application sources and baseline conditions are run on different platforms." In another example, ABAQUS uses TotalView on IBM systems running AIX on Power to address the challenges of debugging in data-intensive and distributed computing environments. "ABAQUS uses TotalView to debug, large, complex programs on IBM systems running AIX on Power," said ABAQUS senior development engineer Robert Schweikert. "Additionally, we also use multiple programming languages and support multiple computing platforms, which add to our quality control requirements. TotalView has the power and flexibility to address these challenges and more. The software assists in making our quality checks more efficient and productive, which reduces our time-to-market." About Etnus Etnus (http://www.etnus.com/) is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis solutions for the multi-core age. Etnus TotalView family of products enable software engineers to visualize, control and correct complex multi-core applications running on a wide variety of platforms (UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Linux, and Mac OS X). TotalView delivers significant productivity gains and application time to market, eliminating the frustration, delays, and headaches inherent in debugging multi-process multi-threaded applications running on development machines with single, dual core, multi-core, or multiple processors. The company's flagship product, TotalView is recognized worldwide as the gold standard for debugging in high performance, distributed or cluster computing environments. Also, TotalView garnered the prestigious HPCwire 2005 Editors Choice Award in the 'Best Software Price/Performance' category. For more than two decades, Etnus products have been at work in research institutions, government laboratories and technical computing centers, as well as commercial enterprises in the financial services, telecommunications, biotech, aerospace, weather prediction, film special effects and animation, oil and gas exploration, and computer-aided engineering markets. Etnus offers its expanding product line through a direct sales force and a worldwide network of resellers. Stop by our booth (#1500) at Supercomputing'06 for more information About IBM Blue Gene Solution Since IBM announced the commercial availability of the IBM System Blue Gene Solution, a commercial version of the research project, in November 2004, a record number of 28 Blue Gene systems appear on the list. Based on IBM's Power architecture, the IBM System Blue Gene Solution is optimized for bandwidth, scalability and the ability to handle large amounts of data while consuming a fraction of the power and floor space required by today's fastest systems. IBM and its teammates are exploring a growing list of high performance computing (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) applications including life sciences, financial modeling, hydrodynamics hydrodynamics: see mechanics. Hydrodynamics The study of fluids in motion. The study is based upon the physical conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy. , quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, astronomy and space research and climate modeling for Blue Gene solutions. For more information, visit www-03.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluegene.html IBM, Blue Gene and AIX are trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. For a complete list of IBM Trademarks, see www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml. For more information about IBM, please visit www.ibm.com. [1] According to the June 2006 TOP500 list of supercomputers available at www.top500.org. |
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