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Allinea DDT – the debugger of choice for the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

Champaign, Illinois, 2012-05-14 – The Blue Waters project is now well underway with a completion date of Fall 2012. As one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, its immense computational power and stability will allow scientists to make breakthroughs in a diverse range of fields. Allinea DDT is the debugger they call on to help them fix their bugs at full scale and exploit the maximum computational power.

The Blue Waters machine aims to deliver breakthroughs in nearly all areas of science and engineering – to enable discoveries into real-world science and engineering, from astrophysics to DNA, from earthquakes to epidemics. The technologies used on Blue Waters will be the bridge to those that future supercomputers will be built on. The project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of Illinois and the state of Illinois. Cray is installing the main computational and on-line storage systems at the National Petascale Computing Facility (NPCF) in Champaign.

It has been brought to our attention that someone is misrepresenting themselves as an Allinea Software employee using email accounts, predominantly Gmail, to contact people with fake job offers.

Ease of use and performance at scale leaps again with release of Allinea DDT 3.1.

Warwick UK, 31^st January 2012, Allinea Software today announced the release of the latest version of Allinea DDT, version 3.1 and a set of novel features designed to both simplify and enable debugging of parallel and multithreaded applications.

• Sparklines – a new zero-click graphical comparison across processes that automatically show data values across processes.
• New offline mode allowing you to debug while you sleep – ideal for those machines that are hard to get interactive time on at scale.
• Scalable tracepoints that provide a fast and scalable alternative to using printf/write for debugging. 
• Always-on static analysis – for auto-detection of common programming errors.
• Support for Co-array Fortran and UPC.
• Support for NVIDIA CUDA 4.0 and 4.1 toolkits – within days of NVIDIA's CUDA 4.1 toolkit release.

Allinea Software (www.allinea.com) - the world leader in tools for parallel software – has been recognized by Red Herring as a Global 100 winner – the award that honors the fastest growing private companies from North America, Europe, and Asia.

Tools from Allinea Software - (www.allinea.com) – the industry leader in parallel software tools for High Performance Computing (HPC), will play a key role in the development of software at a new supercomputing facility at the aeronautical engineering department, King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Saudi Arabia that will extend research capabilities in topics such as turbulent flow modelling.

We were delighted to see so many people stop by our booth at SC11 in Seattle, allowing us to showcase our fantastic debugging products.

Here are few of our many highlights from the week: 

• Allinea DDT 3.1 was launched and demos were given of Allinea DDT and Allinea OPT 

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Visit Allinea Software on Stand 2610 at SC11

Allinea Software (www.allinea.com) has been selected by the Mont Blanc Project as its preferred debugger for ARM processors using Allinea DDT 3.1.

The newly launched Mont Blanc Project aims to set future global High Performance Computing (HPC) standards, through its utilisation of ARM technology to develop energy efficient HPC systems. 

Barcelona, 10th November 2011- Major European suppliers of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies, Allinea, ARM, Bull, Caps Entreprise, Eurotech, ParTec, STMicroelectronics and Xyratex associated with  HPC research centres BSC, CEA, CINECA, Fraunhofer, Forschungszentrum Juelich and LRZ have decided to combine forces to create a European Technology Platform (ETP), building on the previous work of PROSPECT and Teratec.

The objective of the ETP is to define Europe’s research priorities to develop European technology in all the segments of the HPC solution supply chain.

Visit Allinea Software on Stand 2610 at SC11

Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ, http://www.lrz.de) has chosen Allinea Software (www.allinea.com) to support debugging for the targeted large-scale parallel applications on the IBM SuperMUC system next year.

LRZ, which is the computer centre for Munich's universities and for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, provides high-end computing facilities for the scientific community in Germany and beyond.