CEA and Bull select Allinea Debugging and Profiling solutions for global research into sustainable energy sources
Posted on Wed, Nov 02, 2011
Both the CEA and Bull have reaffirmed their longstanding relationships with Allinea Software (www.allinea.com) by choosing the company’s industry leading DDT and OPT debugging and Optimising / Profiling solutions for the International Fusion Energy Research Center (IFERC).
Earlier this year the CEA (on behalf of F4E) selected Bull to provide, maintain and operate the computer that is to be installed at Rokkasho (Japan). This computer is intended to allow the most advanced modeling and simulation in the field of plasmas and controlled fusion equipment. It will be available to European and Japanese researchers for a period of five years from January 2012.
With computational power from Bull exceeding that of 1 Petaflop, it ranks as one of the most powerful systems in the world. The supercomputer is an important milestone of Europe’s contribution to the Broader Approach (BA), an Agreement signed between Europe and Japan to complement the ITER project through various R&D activities which are developed in the field of nuclear fusion.
François Robin, leader of the CEA’s contribution in the project, explains: “As with the introduction of Bull, the selection of Allinea Software is another positive step for this project. Allinea DDT is an impressive and complete toolset for parallel debugging at any scale which will ensure that the aims of the project are attainable.”
Olivier David, ISV Alliances Director at Bull, comments: “The bullx supercomputer dedicated to ITER is one of the largest systems in the world, and we needed a debugging solution that can rise up to the challenges of such a petascale system. Allinea is able to address scale and GPU challenges, and has considerable expertise in the parallel field. Moving forward, the DDT debugger will be available to run on the full size of the system in Japan.”
Also offered as part of the bullx supercomputer suite, Allinea is able to offer their suite of interoperable debugging, optimization and profiling tools for parallel and high performance computing (HPC) on the bullx server ranges.
Jacques Philouze, Worldwide Vice President Sales & Marketing, Allinea Software, comments: “We’re honoured to have been selected by both CEA and Bull to deliver on such an important global project and one which reinforces our presence in the APAC market.
Alternative energy research has now become a major and urgent challenge that is driving the quest for speeding up time to results. It’s therefore very rewarding that intuitive tools like ours have been recognised as key components for global researchers, helping to speed up developers’ adoption and time to debug which has a direct impact on the timescale for achieving results.”
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NOTES TO EDITOR
Details about the CEA - the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives can be found at http://www.cea.fr/
Details about IFERC – the International Fusion Energy Research Centre can be found at http://www.iferc.org
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