Allinea DDT 4.. Allows Developers to Maximize their use of Unified Memory and r New CUDA Performance and Usability Features

Allinea Software today announced that the latest version of its debugging tools, Allinea DDT 4.2.1, has been tailored to offer full support for NVIDIA CUDA 6, the latest release of the parallel computing platform and programming model.

Our debugging tool was released to coincide with the availability of the production release of CUDA 6, ensuring that developers could immediately access the tools they needed, says Allinea Software CEO David Lecomber. This Allinea DDT release shows yet again that anyone developing applications using the power of CUDA can rely on Allinea Software. Our tools are available when they need them most: now!

The CUDA parallel programming model enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of GPU accelerators. The CUDA 6 platform features unified memory and a number of other new features that make parallel programming easier than ever and enable software developers to dramatically decrease the time and effort required to accelerate their scientific, engineering, enterprise and other applications. The production release of the CUDA 6 Toolkit is available today as a free download on the CUDA website.

Unified memory will be transformative for codes, as it removes the need to manually copy data between the host CPU and accelerator. The ability to debug with Allinea DDT from day one will make a huge difference to developers who need tools that can scale out to their biggest systems and most challenging bugs. With these tools available, users can quickly deploy CUDA 6 in production, Lecomber says.

We worked closely with Allinea Software and PGI to provide world-class debugging capabilities for CUDA Fortran and OpenACC directives-based codes, said Duncan Poole, senior manager of Strategic Alliances at NVIDIA. Our goal was to ensure that the best possible tools were available immediately for CUDA 6 users.

In addition to working with NVIDIA and PGI Software, Allinea also worked closely with other major compiler vendors to ensure that Allinea DDT also supports their GPU capabilities.

Visit Allinea Software's website for more information on Allinea DDT.

Allinea Software is the trusted leader in software development tools and application performance analytics for parallel software in high performance computing (HPC) - and one of the fastest growing companies in the sector.

Increasing application performance and debugging highly complex parallel applications require the most capable tools, able to handle the most demanding applications and environments: Leading organizations - such as ORNL, ANL , CEA and NCSA Blue Waters - turn to Allinea when they need results fast.

Our integrated suite of profiling and debugging tools is relied on by software developers and computational scientists - from multicore desktops to beyond Petascale with the most powerful supercomputer in the world - for applications ranging from climate modeling to astrophysics, and from computational finance to aircraft and engine design.

The parallel debugger, Allinea DDT, and the performance profiler, Allinea MAP, are interoperable, extremely scalable, capable and intuitive tools. The tools improve the efficiency and value of HPC investment by reducing development time and increasing application performance.

Owners and users of high performance systems use Allinea Performance Reports to improve the performance and throughput of their HPC system by analyzing and understanding the applications that run on them.

Our research and technology partnerships with the industry's leading centers of expertise and technology providers - ensure that in an era of considerable advancement and change in HPC, Allinea leads the field in providing tools that enable new technology to be exploited to its maximum potential.

Allinea has offices in the US and the UK, and a global network of resellers and partners.

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