Welcome to the Autumn Edition of the Allinea eNewsletter, designed to keep you informed on our latest product enhancements, recent customer successes and company news that have contributed to our continued growth.

DDT Helps TACC Scale Code for Massive Parallel Processing

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will now include DDT in their standard developer’s toolkit for the Ranger system, one of the world’s fastest, and most powerful supercomputers. DDT’s innovative parallel stack view helps developers scale code to run in parallel across multiple processors, and control thousands of processes from a single window. Developers can find and debug problems fast, and cost-effectively scale up applications to run smoothly on Ranger.

 “Debugging is a very critical need on these big systems,” says Karl Schulz, Associate Director of High Performance Computing at TACC. “There is value in a graphical debugger that gives you one master view. If we can save our users time debugging their problem, that’s a good return on investment.” (Read more)

Allinea Featured in HPCwire Article: Allinea Tools Offer Path to Parallel Programming

Allinea was featured in the April 18 issue of HPCwire which focused on the success of DDT and OPT as cost-effective parallel programming tools that are easy to use and have a short learning curve. The article also highlights Allinea’s partnering with companies such as Microsoft, IBM and TACC to support a variety of HPC operating systems, compilers and MPI implementations. (Read more)

OPT and DDT Now Available for Cell/BE Architecture

The latest versions of the DDT and OPT tools are now available for Cell/BE-based applications. DDT 2.3 enhancements include an at-a-glance parallel stack view that is used to control thousands of processes simultaneously, and seamlessly shows PPE and SPE threads within the same debugging session. OPT 1.4 enhancements include an improved statistical sampler, an intuitive time view of performance data metrics, better error reporting, and a troubleshooting guide. Allinea has written two white papers on the subject: Using DDT to Debug Applications on the IBM Cell/BE Processor and Using OPT to Profile Applications on the IBM Cell/BE Processor, both available for download on the Allinea website.


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Allinea Releases DDT 2.3

In addition to its new Cell/BE capabilities, additional enhancements have been made to DDT 2.3, including greater usability for queue submission, better scalability, faster loading of C++ programs and improved memory usage. DDT 2.3 has also been ported to the NEC SX series of vector supercomputers. Click here for a downloadable PDF product brief on DDT 2.3.

DDTLite Available for Microsoft Visual Studio

After successful beta testing, DDTLite is now available as an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1. With its short learning curve, DDTLite lets experienced developers migrate easily from UNIX or LINUX environments to the Microsoft multi-core processor HPC platform. The product enhances the software debugging environment by allowing users to take control of their parallel and multi-threaded software applications, and enables programmers to rapidly identify and fix problems in their code. (Read more)

Click here for a brief video on how effectively DDTLite enables parallel debugging within Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1.


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DDTLite Added to Microsoft’s HPC SDK Toolkit
Allinea is proud to announce that our DDTLite debugging product for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 has been added to the Microsoft SDK Toolkit. Released in late September 2008, the SDK Toolkit enables Microsoft developers to migrate easily from Linux to the Windows HPC operating environment. (Read more)


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Allinea Offers White Paper on Parallel Debugging with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1

DDT, DDTLite Can Now Be Purchased Online

Terra Soft Solutions to offer DDT and OPT for Cell/B.E. Platforms

Terra Soft Solutions, a leading turn-key integrated solutions provider, signed an agreement to sell Allinea’s DDT and OPT for Cell/BE-based applications. This agreement will provide Terra Soft Solutions’ customers access to the leading scalar and parallel computing development tools for Cell/BE on the market.

“DDT and OPT will enable programmers to locate and fix problems quickly to maximize performance for a wide range of Cell/BE-based applications—from Sony PS3s to IBM QS22 BladeCenter blades,” says Kai Staats, CEO of Terra Soft Solutions. (Read more)


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CGGVeritas Chooses DDT For Global Deployment

Citing the need for a debugging tool that was cost-effective, easy to use, had a short learning curve, and could be used efficiently by its programmers around the globe, CGGVeritas selected Allinea’s DDT for deployment worldwide.

“We had been using Allinea’s DDT product for a while at a number of our development sites and were quite happy with it,” says Gerard Carrere, Software Development Manager for CGGVeritas. “After an intense testing period, we saw that worldwide deployment of DDT would increase the efficiency of our developers and the cost-effectiveness of our technology…and that we would realize a rapid return on investment.” (Read more).


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Lifeboat Agreement Helps Allinea Penetrate the North American Market

Lifeboat Distribution, an international software specialty provider, has agreed to offer Allinea’s DDT and OPT tools to their vast network of resellers and solution providers across the United States and Canada.

“We’re very happy to add Allinea’s DDT and OPT to our software tools portfolio,” says Dan Jamieson, VP and General Manager of Lifeboat Distribution. “They are an excellent line extension for our resellers as they help end-users optimize their high performance systems and applications investments.” (Read more)

Allinea also has signed a reseller agreement with SGI, a leading high performance computing company, to sell DDT and OPT to their EMEA business, with plans to extend the agreement worldwide.

David Maples Appointed VP Sales for North America

David Maples has been appointed Vice President Sales and Marketing for Allinea in North America. Mr. Maples has a proven entrepreneurial record in executing highly effective “go-to-market” strategies and for driving companies with leading-edge technologies in new markets.

Mr. Maples has held leadership positions in management, sales and business development at Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corporation, as well as several rapid-growth entrepreneurial firms. He co-founded Streamvision and Silicon Valley Resources and has acted in executive and advisory roles for m2mi corporation, Modviz, Optena and Tiva Systems. He is a regular guest speaker at Stanford University’s continuing education programs and was featured in a recent podcast on Sun Microsystems’ Radio HPC.

Allinea to Exhibit at SC08

Allinea will present our most recent versions of the DDT, DDTLite and OPT tools at SC08, to be held November 15-21 in Austin, Texas. Come visit us at Booth 229.

Also, come listen to us during HP-Cast on November 14-15 in Austin, at the Sun HPC event at TACC on Sunday, November 16 and at the Microsoft lunch during SC08 on Thursday, November 20.
We look forward to seeing you.

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