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TotalView Technologies Announces TotalView(R) Debugger Support for IBM Cell Broadband Engine(TM)

Posted on: Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 09:14 CDT

TotalView Technologies, a leading provider of scaleable debugging and analysis software solutions for the multi-core age, today announced that the company is working with IBM to bring the TotalView(R) Debugger to the IBM QS20(TM) BladeCenter Cell Broadband Engine(TM) platform. The TotalView debugger will provide users with the ability to debug applications that take advantage of the Cell architecture with its parallel synergistic processing units. Using the new cell-specific debugging model, TotalView will allow developers to simultaneously view all threads running on both the SPE and PPE.

IBM is the first to offer the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) processor-based blade with the QS20 BladeCenter server. The Cell/B.E. is a heterogeneous chip multiprocessor that consists of an IBM 64-bit Power Architecture(TM) core, augmented with eight specialized co-processors based on a novel single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) architecture called Synergistic Processor Unit (SPU). The system is integrated by a coherent on-chip bus. The unique capabilities of the Cell/B.E. processor enables accelerated performance to tackle the advanced tasks required to run graphic-intensive applications and computationally intense, high-performance workloads such as aerospace and defense, communications, digital media, medical imaging and seismic computing.

"As high-performance computing increasingly becomes available to the mass market, developers need a way to take advantage of this technology by taking the guesswork out of debugging," said Hina Y. Shah, director of Cell/B.E. Ecosystem Development at IBM. "The TotalView debugger will allow Cell/B.E. developers to find and correct bugs quickly and easily."

Recognized worldwide as the gold standard for debugging in multi-core, data intensive, high-performance, distributed and clustered computing environments, the TotalView Debugger is the industry's most comprehensive source code and memory debugging solution. Built to handle the complexities of the most demanding applications, TotalView is capable of scaling from one to thousands of processes or threads with applications distributed over multiple machines or processors.

"TotalView offers a new approach to scaleable debugging for the next wave of high-performance computing development," said Rich Collier, CEO of TotalView Technologies. "By simplifying the process of debugging data-intensive, multi-process, multi-threaded or network-distributed applications, TotalView dramatically enhances developer productivity and product quality to help speed time to market."

TotalView is currently supported on IBM AIX on PowerPC, IBM Linux on PowerPC and IBM Blue Gene, in addition to dozens of other platforms.

TotalView Technologies will be exhibiting at this week's International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, in booth D08-D10.

About TotalView Technologies

TotalView Technologies (formerly Etnus) is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis software solutions for the multi-core age. TotalView Technologies products enable software developers to quickly, easily and effectively debug UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X applications running on development machines with single, dual-core, multi-core, or multiple processors.

For more than 20 years, TotalView Technologies products have been at work in research institutions, government laboratories, and technical computing centers, as well as commercial enterprises in the financial services, telecommunications, biotech, aerospace, weather prediction, film special effects and animation, oil and gas exploration, and computer-aided engineering markets. Recognized worldwide as the gold standard for debugging in high-performance, distributed or cluster computing environments, TotalView Technologies' award-winning technology is used to solve the world's toughest computing problems on many of the world's largest supercomputers. For more information, visit www.totalviewtech.com.

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