Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
Etnus Announces TotalView 6.2 For
Intel Systems
Etnus, a leading provider of debugging solutions for complex code,
announced
the release of TotalView 6.2, which includes much-anticipated support for
Intel Itanium 2-based systems.
TotalView is a full-featured, source level, graphical debugger providing
software engineers with complete control over threaded and parallel
applications written in C, C++ or Fortran. Its features simplify debugging
and analysis of applications and offer unrivaled support for code that uses
multithreading and MPI on both distributed and shared memory computers. With
advanced features not found in any other debugger, TotalView is unrivaled in
its ability to help find bugs fast.
The Itanium 2 processor's floating-point performance, 64-bit addressing,
and
large cache memory are well-suited to a wide range of large, multi-process
technical computing applications. "Etnus is experiencing increasing demand
for TotalView from a wide range of industries, such as imaging, petroleum,
digital animation, finance, and telecommunications," comments Chris
Doehlert, CEO of Etnus Inc. "These markets are finding that their codes are
becoming more and more complex and they seek TotalView's advanced debugging
and data analysis capabilities for their complex code."
"TotalView is a key component in providing ABAQUS developers with a common
Unix/Linux development environment," states Matt Dunbar, Senior Engineer at
Abaqus. "ABAQUS is a multi-language application supported on eight different
Unix/Linux platforms. Totalview provides a common link between most of these
platforms, allowing developers to write and debug code on the different
platforms without a significant change in working environment. Totalview's
flexibility makes it the one tool for all occasions."
TotalView supports Intel compilers for Linux on both the Intel Itanium and
IA-32 architectures, such as the Intel Pentium 4 processor.
"The Itanium 2 processor delivers outstanding performance, scalability and
value for high-end enterprise and technical computing applications. Now
supporting Intel Itanium 2 processors, TotalView allows developers to
harness leading edge debugging features for complex 64-bit multiprocessor
platforms and enhance the ability to migrate current 32-bit applications to
64-bit," said David L Brown, general manager of Intel's Software Enabling
Division.
Complexity, parallelism, and the sheer size of an application can add to
the
challenge programmers face in making application logic work properly.
TotalView is designed for such environments, particularly when parallelism
is employed and in situations where developers are taking applications from
32-bit systems to larger, faster 64-bit systems such as those based on the
Itanium 2 processor.
When porting to 64-bit architectures, software engineers commonly
experience
problems with constructs like C pointers as well as data originally written
to align on 32-bit boundaries. TotalView's advanced language support,
parallel support, and data analysis features ease the debugging involved in
these projects.
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