Rogue Wave Delivers Early Access Version of TotalView for IBM Blue Gene/Q-based System to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
February 1, 2012 —
(Page 1 of 2)
Rogue Wave Software and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that Rogue Wave has delivered a pre-release version of TotalView, optimized for the IBM Blue Gene/Q-based Sequoia supercomputer. This is a significant milestone in the multi-year collaboration between LLNL, Rogue Wave, and IBM.
Leveraging a long history of collaboration, the three organizations worked in parallel to define the debugging interfaces and port the TotalView debugger, simultaneous to the development of the Blue Gene/Q hardware. TotalView engineers at Rogue Wave were able to begin validation and finalize the hardware-specific development shortly after the first Sequoia system was powered on. As a result of this successful collaboration, Rogue Wave Software has delivered to LLNL a pre-release version of TotalView, its massively parallel, interactive and automated debugging tool.
When it is deployed later this year at LLNL, Sequoia is expected to deliver 20 petaflops peak, double the speed of the fastest system currently on the TOP500 list. LLNL plans to use Sequoia’s impressive computational capability to advance understanding of fundamental physics and engineering questions that arise in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) program to ensure the safety, security and reliability of the United States’ nuclear deterrent without testing. Sequoia will also support NNSA/ DOE programs at LLNL that focus on nonproliferation, counterterrorism, energy, security, health and climate change. IBM's historic role in developing supercomputers that provide the power behind critical applications across a wide array of industrial and laboratory clients has uniquely positioned them to be able to provide Sequoia for the vital functions that are LLNL's responsibility.
TotalView is a comprehensive parallel source code debugging and memory error detection tool that dramatically enhances developer productivity by simplifying the process of debugging parallel, data-intensive, multi-process, multi-threaded or network-distributed applications. “Our software development teams create some of the most sophisticated computational models of physical systems anywhere. These models represent many physical effects and span large scales in both time and space,” says Jim Rathkopf, Associate Program Director of Computational Physics at LLNL. “Understanding what's happening in these large multi-physics codes running on thousands of processors is really hard, especially when things aren't working correctly. We rely on tools provided by folks like Rogue Wave to help us develop our codes and verify that they are working correctly, but also to find problems that come up both in development and production.”
Share this link: http://sdt.bz/36329
Most Read Latest News Blog Resources
Virtualization: Not just for machines anymore
Network virtualization allows multi-tiered applications to behave as though they were in a physical network
|
|
Zeichick’s Take: The handheld and the tablet, circa 1976
Texas Instruments' and Hewlett-Packard's calculators were doing things decades ago we take for granted today
|
|
Google talks tools at AnDevCon III
New 3D debugging tool and recent ADK changes are detailed by Google developers at the third Android Developer Conference
|
|
Android is the focus of two new design tools
Anywhere Software and Xamarin provide ways for developers to create and test their applications on PCs
|
Virtualization: Not just for machines anymore
Network virtualization allows multi-tiered applications to behave as though they were in a physical network
|
|
Achievements and learning: Gamification comes to businesses and schools
Startup takes page from gamers by offering achievement marks to get developers more engaged in their projects
|
|
Google talks tools at AnDevCon III
New 3D debugging tool and recent ADK changes are detailed by Google developers at the third Android Developer Conference
|
|
SmartBear rolls out new quality solution: API Complete
Software gives organizations ability to write test scripts and monitor APIs by bridging the DevOps divide
|
Creation
To write better software, cultivate your ability to be creative.
|
|
Slick...but who needs it?
compilr.com is a well-designed site and the folks behind it seem to have their heart in the right place. But...who needs it?
|
|
How to be a better software developer
Want to be a better developer? You won't get there by mastering an interesting language or learning a new set of APIs.
|
|
Wooing Galatea
Do yourself a favor and check out Galatea 2.2, a wonderful book by novelist Richard Powers.
|
Five SCM Best Practices
Two-thirds of all software projects fail, according to the Standish Group’s CHAOS study. Improper usage of software configuration management...
|
|
|
Best Practices for Branching and Merging Patterns
Development teams often create a branching pattern, usually drawn out on a white board or in a Visio document, that is used as a model to...
|
|
Automated Error Reporting
We invite you to read a short e-zine that tells you all about automated error reporting for .NET applications. This 8-page e-zine is packed...
|
|
The End of Application Redeploys
Imagine that every time you wanted to write, send or receive an email, you needed to restart your computer. How much time would this take, a...
|
Related Articles
News Briefs: November 15, 2008
Metaforic comes out with a new security product for monitoring networks, ICEsoft and ILOG announce that they are merging their technologies for later releases, and Urbancode adds pre-flight builds for testers to AnthillPro.
|
News Briefs: August 1, 2008
Microsoft and ASG team up to create an API connecting their products, DevExpress has a beta of its AgDataGrid suite for Silverlight, and TotalView's source debugger has been updated to allow it to run on the Cell Broadband Engine architecture.
|
IBM's second century begins with a new CEO
Virginia Rometty gets that software will play an important role in providing business value
|