Allinea brings parallel debugging to 64-bit ARM platforms

Tue Novem­ber 18, 2014 

ARMv8‑A architecture gets boost with arrival of world-leading Allinea DDT

War­wick UK, the arri­val of the new 64-bit ARM® pro­ces­sor archi­tec­tu­re in high per­for­mance com­pu­ting recei­ved a signi­fi­cant boost today with the announce­ment of avai­la­bi­li­ty for a key deve­lo­p­ment tool from Alli­nea Software.

Alli­nea DDT, is the lea­ding debug­ger for HPC and will enable appli­ca­ti­ons to be por­ted to the ARMv8 archi­tec­tu­re quickly.

Get­ting appli­ca­ti­ons up and run­ning on a new sys­tem, gene­ra­ting real results, is the day one objec­ti­ve for ever­yo­ne. Releasing Alli­nea DDT for the ARMv8 plat­form means that com­pu­ta­tio­nal sci­en­tists and deve­lo­pers can take advan­ta­ge of this plat­form now,” said David Lecom­ber, CEO of Alli­nea Soft­ware, “We have work­ed with Appli­ed Micro and their Mus­tang deve­lo­p­ment sys­tems to prepa­re for the arri­val of main­stream sys­tems in HPC.”

The sci­en­ti­fic com­pu­ting com­mu­ni­ty requi­res tools for debug­ging their MPI appli­ca­ti­ons — not just on one node, but on lar­ge sca­le-out deploy­ment. The avai­la­bi­li­ty of Alli­nea is a gre­at step for­ward for the sci­en­ti­fic com­mu­ni­ty and the ARM 64-bit eco­sys­tem. This enhan­ces the rich tool-chain sup­port alre­a­dy available for AppliedMicro’s X‑GeneTM Ser­ver on a ChipTM solu­ti­on,” added Gaurav Singh, VP Tech­ni­cal Stra­tegy, Appli­ed Micro Cir­cuits Cor­po­ra­ti­on.

The ARMv8‑A archi­tec­tu­re enables HPC appli­ca­ti­ons to deli­ver high­ly-sca­lable 64-bit per­for­mance,” said Lak­sh­mi Man­dyam, direc­tor, ser­ver sys­tems and eco­sys­tems, ARM. “Allinea’s con­tri­bu­ti­on to the eco­sys­tem with their new debug­ger for the ARMv8 plat­form is signi­fi­cant for ARM-based ser­ver devices. We look for­ward to see­ing the rea­liza­ti­on of opti­mi­zed, vali­da­ted appli­ca­ti­ons that part­ners will be able to crea­te using this tool.”

Access fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on on Alli­nea DDT for the ARM 64-bit.