Surge in Demand for Etnus TotalView Licenses to Analyze and Debug Complex Code on Linux Platforms.Business/High Tech Editors FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2000 Etnus TotalView(TM) Parallel Debugger and Analyzer Filling Immediate Need for Quality Linux Tools 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). and Linux markets, today announced the rapid adoption of TotalView(TM), the first parallel debugger and analyzer to address the needs of the Linux market. A "Linux Developer Opinion Survey", recently conducted by research house Evans Marketing Services, indicated a lack of adequate development tools for Linux. "We began addressing the need for advanced Linux cluster development tools earlier this year when we introduced a Linux version of the Etnus TotalView debugger and analyzer," explained Chris Doehlert, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Etnus. "In recent months, we've seen a two-fold increase in the demand for TotalView on Linux platforms. This clearly indicates that as Linux clusters become more commonplace, there is a corresponding need for quality development tools." TotalView is the only multiprocess, multithread application debugger/analyzer that supports Fortran, C and C++ languages along with the major parallel programming paradigms including MPI MPI - Message Passing Interface , 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 analyzer automatically acquires processes and threads in multiprocess programs, provides developers greater flexibility in controlling the program and graphically displays data arrays. Users can easily dive on program objects and structures for more detail. The 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. (OSC O.S.C. n. short for Order to Show Cause. (See: Order to Show Cause) ) was a beta test site for TotalView on Linux. After seeing the capabilities of the analyzer and having received numerous requests for its use, they purchased TotalView for Linux and their statewide network. The use of TotalView is incorporated into the advanced programming classes taught at OSC. "It offers advanced support such as OpenMP and MPI, and is the only debugger available that works on all our systems and across OARnet (a networking initiative that provides Internet access to the majority of Ohio's colleges, universities and state government agencies)," explains Doug Johnson, system developer/engineer with OSC. "As major corporations and research centers alike choose Linux to solve mission critical problems, the demand for advanced development tools like TotalView skyrockets," comments Mary Kay Bunde, director of market development for Etnus. "TotalView is specially designed to seamlessly 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. complex codes running on Linux clusters. Software engineers worldwide appreciate its advanced time-saving features, unparalleled flexibility over program control and ability to automatically acquire processes as they start." Tripwire trip·wire n. 1. A wire stretched near ground level to trip or ensnare an enemy. 2. A wire or line that activates a weapon, trap, or camera, for example, when pulled. 3. , Inc., the leading provider of Integrity assessment security solutions for Global 3000 e-commerce and e-business corporations, recently put TotalView through its paces by porting its C++ application, Tripwire HQ Connector(TM) to Redhat Linux along with DEC Alpha, 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) AIX-RS6000, HPUX HPUX Hewlett-Packard Unix , SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. IRIX-MIPS, and Sun Sparc Solaris. Tripwire engineers found that TotalView excelled in its ability to easily debug multiple threads and forked See forked version. forked - (Unix; probably after "fucked") Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent fork bomb. processes while maintaining a consistent graphical debugging environment. As an added benefit, ramp-up time was almost non-existent. After downloading TotalView from the web, the Tripwire team was productive within 20 minutes. About Etnus, Inc. Etnus was previously the ToolWorks group 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. , and was established as a wholly-owned business in August, 1998. During 1999, Etnus achieved more than 50% growth in gross revenue with even faster growth in license and maintenance sales. Etnus supplies developers and major system vendors with application debuggers/analyzers that provides visibility into multiprocess and multithread programs, and control over the correction of their problems. TotalView(TM) scales beyond the capability of any other debugger and is being used on systems of all sizes in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, and research. More information on Etnus and TotalView can be found at www.etnus.com. TotalView is a trademark of Etnus. All other brands and marks are the properties of their respective owners. |
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