U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SELECTS ETNUS DEBUGGER/ANALYZER FOR USE IN WORLD'S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER.Etnus TotalView parallel debugger and analyzer will be used in 30 TeraOPS system to be built by Compaq for the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI ASCI American Society for Clinical Investigation. ) program Etnus, the leading supplier of parallel application debuggers for the high performance computing community, has announced that the TotalView debugger/analyzer was selected for use in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administrations (NNSA NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA National Nurses Society on Addictions NNSA Norfolk Naval Sailing Association NNSA Native Nations Sustainable Alliance (Phoenix, Arizona) ) 30 TeraOPs supercomputer to be built by Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. . The supercomputer -- "Q" -- is the latest advancement in the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) within NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing. Because no new nuclear weapons have been developed by the United States since 1992, its existing nuclear arsenal is Program, which uses an integrated program of surveillance, experiments, non-nuclear tests, archived data, modeling and simulation to assess and certify the safety, security and reliability of nuclear weapons without underground nuclear testing Underground nuclear testing refers to test detonations of nuclear weapons that are performed underground. Most nuclear tests have historically been performed underground, in order to prevent nuclear fallout from entering into the atmosphere. . "Because of the advanced parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. capabilities of TotalView, Etnus has become a critical technology partner that Compaq has repeatedly turned to when it comes to developing complex parallel applications," explains Bill Blake, vice president, High Performance Technical Computing with Compaq. "Initially, `Q' will consist of approximately 12,000 Alpha processors with the option of upgrading to a 100 TeraOPS configuration. TotalView is consistently used on ASCI machines because it can handle the rigors of developing applications that scale to the TeraOP level of performance -- efficiently analyzing thousands of processes and quickly providing insight into complex codes." Since 1997, TotalView has been usedby ASCI in their multi-thousand processor systems. It's since become the predominant debugger/analyzer for the high performance computing industry. "The partnership with ASCI enables Etnus to develop functionality that pushes the boundaries of development tools today," comments Rich Collier, vice president, engineering for Etnus. "The functionality we develop today in TotalView for ASCI becomes the functionality needed tomorrow in the commercial marketplace." Able to scale beyond the capabilities of any other debugger and run on all major platforms, Total View is 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. applications that range from modeling nuclear interactions to simulating oil reservoirs, executing sophisticated econometric analysis, and creating leading edge internet applications. 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. |
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