Ohio Supercomputer Center and Network of Universities Benefit from Etnus TotalView Parallel Debugger.Business/High Tech Editors FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2000 Etnus, the leading supplier of parallel application debuggers for the 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). market, today announced the use of the TotalView(TM) Parallel Debugger by the Ohio state-wide network of computers, sponsored by OSC O.S.C. n. short for Order to Show Cause. (See: Order to Show Cause) (Ohio Supercomputer Center The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is a high performance computing and networking center headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, United States (OSC-Columbus) with a division in Springfield, Ohio (OSC-Springfield). It was stablished in 1987 by the Ohio Board of Regents. ). The Center's networking initiative, OARnet, provides Internet access See how to access the Internet. to the majority of Ohio's colleges and universities and state government agencies. Through OARnet, more than a million Ohioans are connected to the vast infrastructure available through OhioLINK, OPLIN OPLIN Ohio Public Library Information Network and the World Wide Web. "TotalView is an important and necessary tool that enables faculty and students in medicine, business, economics, engineering, chemistry, mathematics, and physics to efficiently demonstrate their applications using a supercomputer," comments Doug Johnson The name Doug Johnson may refer to the following people:
TotalView is the only multiprocess, multithread application debugger that supports Fortran, C and C++ languages along with most parallel programming paradigms including MPI, threads, and OpenMP. GUI-based, it shortens development time via an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use "select-and-dive" approach. It enables developers to unravel and control multiple threads and processes running on single or multiple processor systems. The debugger automatically acquires related processes and threads, and graphically displays data arrays. Users can then easily dive on program objects and structures for more detail. OSC had been a beta test A test of new or revised hardware or software that is performed by users at their facilities under normal operating conditions. Beta testing follows alpha testing. Vendors of packaged software often offer their customers the opportunity of beta testing new releases or versions, and the site for TotalView 4.0 on Linux. After seeing the capabilities of the debugger and having received numerous requests for its use, they purchased TotalView for their state-wide network. The use of TotalView is incorporated into the advanced programming classes taught at OSC. "As more programmers incorporate OpenMP directives and MPI into their work, there's a need to support them with products like TotalView," explains Johnson. "A resource for Ohio's scientists and engineers, OSC requires a scalable debugger that supports multiple parallel programming models, and can be used on multiple platforms for all types of applications," comments Mary Kay Bunde, director of market development at Etnus. "OSC evaluated many products for use in their state-wide university program, and chose TotalView as their debugger." The multi-process and multi-threaded capabilities of TotalView make it ideal for debugging complex codes used for modeling nuclear physics and oil reservoir simulations, sophisticated econometric applications used for predicting stock market trends, and many high-end applications used in large computing and research laboratories. About OSC OSC is one of the oldest supercomputer centers in American having become fully operational in 1987 with one supercomputer, a Cray X-MP. Today OSC is a fully scalable center with mid-range machines to match those found at the National Science Foundation centers and national labs including six supercomputers. Critical partnerships in computational science, like the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program and the National Computational Science Alliance, allow OSC to help position the state as a national technology leader. About Etnus Etnus LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions Dolphin Interconnect Solutions (OSE: DOLP) is a manufacturer of high speed data communication systems, located in Oslo, Norway (headquarters) and Natick, Massachusetts, USA (US Customer Support and Logistics. , Inc. is based in Framingham, Massachusetts. The company's products support application developers and third-party vendors with multiprocessor, multi-node debugging and performance analysis tools. For more information contact Etnus, Inc. at 800/856-3766 (U.S.A.), 508/875-3030 x325 (outside U.S.A.); fax: 508/875-1517; Web site: www.etnus.com; email: info@etnus.com. TotalView is a trademark of Etnus LLC. All other brands and marks are the properties of their respective owners. For more information, contact: |
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