Welcome to the Winter 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.

We hope that both current and prospective users of our DDT Debugging and OPT Optimization tools will find the content of this eNewsletter of interest and value. Let us know if there is a topic that you would like us to address in future issues at info@allinea.com.

Website Additions Offer Product Demos & Licensing Info Online

We’ve recently enhanced the Allinea website to help our customers find more of the information they need quickly and online.

Looking to license one of our products? We offer a variety of licensing agreements — from workstations to supercomputers, depending on your requirements. Click here for details on the licensing options for DDT and OPT, as well as Floating Licence information.

Need help on how to install, configure, profile or debug your code? Click here for helpful online product demos of our DDT debugging and OPT code optimization and profiling tools.

Release of Allinea DDT 2.2

Allinea recently announced the release of DDT 2.2, our state-of-the art development tool for multi-core and large-scale parallel debugging. The key enhancements include:

• Greater ease of use
• Improved scalability with new summary process and at-a-glance parallel stack view
• More support for platforms with NEC SX, Cell BE, and Cray XT

If you already use Allinea DDT and are under maintenance, simply download and replace your current version to take advantage of these enhancements. (Read more.)

White Paper on Debugging IBM Cell BE Processor

Allinea recently published a white paper entitled Using DDT To Debug Applications on the IBM Cell BE Processor. This informative piece explains how Allinea’s DDT debugging tool provides enhanced support for the IBM Cell BE architecture to make bug fixing a quicker and less frustrating task.

Click here to read the white paper. Click here to obtain an evaluation copy of DDT.

Release of Allinea OPT 1.3

We also recently announced the release of OPT 1.3, our optimization and profiling tool for large-scale parallel HPC architectures. This product upgrade includes:

• Enhanced function-level parallel profiling (i.e. profile codes outside of the MPI regions)
• Improved call-graph navigation
• User-settable limits to prevent the database from eating disk space

If you already use Allinea OPT and are under maintenance, simply download and replace your current version to take advantage of these enhancements. (Read more.)

Allinea, Sun, and TACC to Develop Petascale Debugging Tool
for Massively Parallel Applications

Allinea will collaborate with Sun Microsystems and the Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC) to develop next-generation debugging tools for large-scale cluster systems, including the Ranger computing platform of Sun’s Constellation System.

“We are delighted to announce this key partnership with TACC and Sun Microsystems,” says Allinea CEO Michael Rudgyard. “It not only strengthens our market presence in the U.S., but demonstrates the capability of our existing product and our commitment to developing new techniques for debugging at massive scale.” (Read more.)

U.S. Dept. of Energy Chooses Allinea DDT For New Cray XT4 Supercomputer

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has chosen Allinea’s DDT debugger product for their new Cray XT4 supercomputer.

“It was imperative that we offer our users a comprehensive application development and debugging environment on this system,” says Jonathan Carter, Group Leader for User Services at NERSC. “DDT was chosen because its feature set and price/performance offered the most benefits to our users. We have been very impressed with DDT and Allinea’s technical team has been very responsive.” (Read more.)

ICHEC To Install Allinea’s DDT & OPT On Their New IBM BlueGene System

In order to enhance their current infrastructure, The Irish Center for High End Computing (ICHEC) has purchased Allinea’s DDT and OPT tools for their new IBM BlueGene system — billed as the world’s fastest supercomputer with speeds up to one petaflop. This marks the first installation of Allinea products on BlueGene and demonstrates our ability to address the needs of such powerful, large-scale systems. (Read more.)

French IFREMER Adds Allinea’s DDT To Their New SGI System

The French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) will use Allinea’s DDT debugger for their new SGI Altix ICE 8200 blade cluster system. Installed in August 2007, the combination of SGI and DDT will allow researchers at IFREMER to work more efficiently with larger data volumes for a variety of applications including WaveWatchill, MARS, OPA, HYCOM, and CORIOLIS.

Allinea Signs Worldwide Reseller Agreement with Cray

Cray, a global leader in supercomputing, has signed a worldwide reseller agreement for Allinea’s DDT debugging tool, providing a scalable, intuitive, and powerful solution for Cray XT systems running in the Linux environment. The DDT architecture is particularly suited for massively parallel machines such as the Cray XT, and DDT is installed on the majority of Europe’s largest supercomputers

Gilbert Lauber Appointed New Allinea Sales Manager for Central Europe

Gilbert R. Lauber has been appointed Sales Manager for Allinea in Central Europe. In this new position, Mr. Lauber will be responsible for overseeing our sales efforts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Poland.

Mr. Lauber has many years experience in the HPC industry, having worked at several leading firms including Sun Mircosystems, SGI, and Cray. In his long and diverse career, Mr. Lauber has held positions as a consultant, managing director, system engineer, and programmer. He resides in Switzerland and speaks multiple languages, which will surely be of benefit in his new position.

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