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Latest version of popular parallel debugging tool helps scientists pinpoint bugs and introduces powerful companion performance tool.

This article was written by Scott Jones, Science Writer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee.

Tough requirements and a tight timeline called for tools ready to deploy at the largest scales

The Blue Waters supercomputer is now in production, setting a new scalability record for Allinea DDT, the popular debugger installed on over 45 of the world’s top 100 supercomputers, and which is now in routine use by computational scientists there at scale.

Blue Waters, a Cray supercomputer commissioned by the University of Illinois’s National Center for Science Applications (NCSA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), is the world’s fastest supercomputer on a university campus with a theoretical capacity of 11.62 petaflops.

Blue Waters will be entirely available for open science. Projects will span the spectrum from the minute to the cosmic, everything from examining the structure of viruses to predicting the weather in outer space.

Allinea MAP is a new performance-analysis tool scientists and HPC performance experts alike can use to rapidly spot performance problems in complex codes.

 Allinea DDT and Allinea MAP to help meteorologists and climate researchers optimize their applications for a whole new magnitude of supercomputing power

Salt Lake City, UT, 2012-11-19, Allinea Software today announced immediate availability of debugging support in Allinea DDT for the latest NVIDIA Tesla K20 family of GPU accelerators, based on the Kepler architecture, and the recently released NVIDIA CUDA 5 toolkit.

Salt Lake City, 2012-11-13, Allinea Software today announced the immediate availability of their leading parallel debugging tool, Allinea DDT, for Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors - and forthcoming support in the Allinea MAP performance profiler which was itself newly unveiled during the SC12 launch gala.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, 2012-11-12 - Allinea Software shifted the performance landscape at SC12 today with the announcement of a new performance analysis tool, Allinea MAP.

Allinea DDT makes debugging at scale easy in Australia

Allinea DDT adds support for IBM Blue Gene/Q

San Jose, CA, 2012-11-01, Allinea Software today announced the release of its high-performance scalable parallel debugger, Allinea DDT, for IBM BlueGene/Q systems.

The IBM BlueGene/Q (BG/Q) is the next generation in the IBM BlueGene family, and brings unprecedented core counts and multi-petaflop performance.

Software developers face their own engineering challenges in fully exploiting the potential of these high-end systems. Leadership sites for HPC application development recognize the importance of development tools at scale: application failure is incredibly expensive in machine time and in missed – or invalid - scientific results.