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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.

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.

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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.

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory (www.anl.gov) has selected Allinea DDT as the default tool for parallel debugging on its Blue Gene (BG) and Linux Systems. 

Allinea DDT provides advanced parallel debugging tools for scalar, multi-threaded and parallel applications, and is acclaimed for its intuitiveness and scalability.

Warwick, United Kingdom, 2011-06-06 – Massive performance revolution for all parallel software developers

Allinea Software (www.allinea.com) - the leading provider of parallel software development tools for high performance computing (HPC) - has released the first debugger capable of handling applications running across hundreds of thousands of cores – needed to deliver Petaflops performance.