Allinea Announces DDT for NEC SX Series Vector Supercomputers
Warwick, United Kingdom – Allinea Software, a leading provider of innovative products for large-scale scalar and parallel high performance computing applications, today announced that it has ported its popular Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) to NEC SX Series vector supercomputers.
For several years, NEC had been using
DDT on Linux and other systems with much success, but the debugging
tool was not available for the powerful SX vector supercomputers.
Allinea worked closely with NEC and the High Performance Computing
Centre (HLRS) in Stuttgart, a leading research facility that uses the
SX-8 for complex engineering simulations, to port DDT for the SX
series, enabling access to this state-of-the-art parallel debugger
for every NEC platform.
"Vector supercomputers—such as the SX series—require a powerful and scalable debugging tool like DDT to ensure that developers can fix problems with their complex large-scale calculations rapidly,” said David Lecomber, CTO of Allinea Software. "By porting DDT to the SX Series, now NEC’s current and new customers can use the same parallel debugger on every platform — from high end to low end."
DDT is recognized as the industry’s most technically advanced tool for debugging parallel applications, with a graphical interface acclaimed for its ease-of-use and short learning curve.
"The SX-8 we use
at HLRS provides multiple teraflops performance over a range of
complex engineering applications,” said Dr. Michael Resch, Director
of the HLRS and Chairman of the NEC User Group. “As such, we
require a debugging tool that is not only state-of-the-art, but is
easy for programmers to learn and use. We were impressed with DDT’s
performance on Linux and other platforms.
Porting
DDT to the SX series now provides programmers with total scalability
in that they can use the market’s leading debugging program, with
the same look, feel and functionality, for all of NEC’s systems. The
result is continual high computing performance with greater cost
efficiency and a rapid return on investment."
DDT
can be purchased online at the Allinea website (http://www.allinea.com) and
is
compatible with other operating systems such as AIX, Linux and
Solaris on x86, AMD64, EM64T, IA64, Power, Cell and UltraSPARC
processors.
Allinea
Software will be exhibiting at the International Supercomputing
Conference (ISC2008) in Dresden, Germany from June 17-20, 2008.
About NEC
NEC
Corporation is one of the world’s leading providers of Internet,
broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to
meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of
customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the fields of computer,
networking and electron devices by integrating its technical
strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor
solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs
more than 150,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.nec.com
About
Allinea Software
Based
in Warwick (UK), with subsidiaries in Germany and the United States,
Allinea Software is
a leading supplier of tools for multi-core and high performance
computing (HPC). The company
was founded by computer scientists from Warwick and Oxford
Universities, giving them unrivalled expertise in large-scale
parallel computing.
Allinea’s
products are used at commercial, government and academic sites
worldwide, and set new standards for affordability and ease-of-use in
parallel and multi-core programming. With new product features aimed at multi-threaded applications, novel
computing architectures, and the announcement of DDTLite for Visual
Studio, Allinea is bringing its wealth of experience in parallel
tools to the rapidly-expanding arena of multi-core processing.
For further information contact Jacques Philouze, VP of Sales and Marketing, Allinea Software at +44 (0) 1926 623231 or jacques@allinea.com
