HPC Centers are the backbone for research in everything from advanced physics, biotech and earth modeling to complex simulation, homeland security and more. The HPC center’s role is to house, maintain and share compute capability as a shared resource, and many are listed in the Top 500 list of supercomputers. There are typically two styles of usage.
Some large supercomputers are dedicated to very large computing problems now able to run on smaller systems. In this case, a user may have access to the entire machine for a period of time to run his extremely intensive application. Allinea DDT's high level of scalability makes it the preferred tool for this user. They need to debug at scale to make the application run on the full machine. With machines of this class, consuming time debugging the application without a scalable debugger translates into more time spent debugging the application and less time available for delivering the science.
The second HPC Center model is to provide a very powerful shared resource. In this case, multiple users will share a portion of the total system capability. These systems are the cornerstone of most research and development. As a shared resource, these HPC Centers are still able to offer significantly more computation capacity, plus developer support and assistance to the scientist.
The scalability, ease of use and intuitive user interface of Allinea tools enable developers to solve software issues quickly, to focus on delivering the science and shorten the time to publish results. Our products are used on 35 of the top 100 supercomputers worldwide.