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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.

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.

Allinea DDT makes debugging at scale easy in Australia

Allinea DDT adopted in major refresh at new supercomputing center

Lugano, Switzerland, 2012-09-11, the Swiss national supercomputing center recently opened a new state of the art facility – with lake-water cooled computing systems – and are refreshing their development tools by moving to Allinea DDT.

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.

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 

Allinea Software, an innovative tools company based in Warwick (UK), today announced that it has ported its popular Distributed Debugging Tool,DDT, to CRAY XT™ systems with Linux environments.