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On the TotalView Technologies Calendar for SC07... |
Booth #124
November 10-16, 2007
Reno, NV
Executive Briefing Attend one of our Executive Briefings:
A demonstration of our latest products and product updates
Atlantis Hotel - Coral Reef Room
Tues, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Wed, 10:00 - 11:00 am
Mon, November 12:
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Wed, November 14: 2:00 - 2:30 pm
Thurs, November 15:
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| TIPS & TRICKS |
Does your application include a large number of shared libraries? Does your applications have large shared libraries you do not intend on debugging during any session? If so, you can configure TotalView to read symbols for selected libraries, which will dramatically reduce startup time and will decrease the memory footprint of the TotalView Debugger.
When TotalView loads the program, it reads the shared libraries the program uses. These libraries contain loader and debugging symbols that TotalView needs. If you have a number of large libraries, you'll have to wait until they are all read and stored. You can speed things up by entering library names within the Dynamic Libraries Page with the File > Preferences Dialog Box, where you can tell TotalView to load all symbols, load no symbols, or just load loader symbols. In most cases, you'll want to tell TotalView just to load the loader symobls.
For more information and to see a graphical illustration, visit the TotalView website here.
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Industry Tidbits |
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SC07 is increasing its educational involvement with new programs this year for undergraduate and graduate faculty and students. Seven activity categories, including a cluster challenge, doctoral showcase, and student research poster competition, will highlight the ACM and IEEE Computer Society's initiatives to promote high performance computing in higher education. | |
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CEO Corner
After releasing new versions of our TotalView® and MemoryScape products and introducing the new quad-core version of TotalView Individual this fall, we're ready to unveil our early experience program for customers to preview the new TotalView Workbench. The Workbench provides users access to multiple products and company services in a single dashboard. We will also be exploring integration of the TAU Performance System and other offerings into our Workbench.
Please stop by our booth at SC 07 or join us at an executive briefing or one of our sessions.
Best,
Rich Collier
TotalView Technologies CEO
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Product Spotlight: MemoryScape
TotalView Technologies' MemoryScape has quickly become a hit with multi-core programmers, as noted by our customers:
"MemoryScape accelerates our ability to identify where and why problems occur in our software. It has enabled us to identify memory issues and by using its scripting interface, we were able to automate the evaluation process. Now, the system automatically uncovers any hidden latent errors in our code with every build, allowing our developers to proactively fix potential errors prior to release."
MemoryScape is an easy-to-use, graphical, interactive memory debugger that helps developers, build engineers, and QA testers identify, inspect and resolve difficult memory problems in C, C++ and FORTRAN, including complex multi-process and multi-threaded programs. Designed to be an integrated part of the software development process, MemoryScape allows development teams to watch for memory leaks and monitor memory usage while an application is running, and enables them to monitor heap memory, view memory usage, locate memory leaks, track memory events and show corrupted memory. Developers can also save and compare memory states and compile sophisticated memory reports. MemoryScape is non-intrusive, so developers can find memory problems without recompiling, and without waiting all day for even the smallest test to run.
It is available now in team licensing that allows for process token-based use among multiple developers.
Download an evaluation copy of MemoryScape. |
TotalView Technologies Previews New Suite of Multi-Core Debugging Tools
TotalView Technologies has announced an early experience program for customers to preview the new TotalView Workbench, Performance Analysis Tools and TotalView TracePoints products. The new TotalView Workbench provides users with the ability to access multiple products and company services in a single dashboard, rather than having to open and keep multiple applications running on a desktop. We will be exploring the integration of TAU into the TotalView Workbench as the first offering in the TotalView Technologies performance analysis tools suite. TotalView TracePoints removes many of the challenges inherent in print statement style debugging, which is widely used by developers despite the fact that it is very labor intensive.
Registration for the program is available now on the TotalView Technologies site at www.totalviewtech.com/earlyaccess.htm. |
TotalView Technologies Releases TotalView 8.3 and MemoryScape 2.1
TotalView Technologies has introduced new versions of its advanced debugging solutions, TotalView Debugger 8.3 and MemoryScape 2.1. The products have been updated to add to their already considerable power and simplicity, with a focus on making it easier for MPI programmers to streamline their application development processes.
New features of TotalView 8.3 include an improved MPI launch, an improved data view across processes and threads, variable change highlights, an improved watchpoints feature, easier "expand all" commands, and support for several new operating systems.
The comprehensive source code and optional memory debugging solution is also joined by the newest version of MemoryScape, which includes an improved MPI launch, multi-file loading, a new simplified memscript output, and support for multiple new operating systems.
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TotalView Technologies recently introduced a new version of its TotalView Individual Edition Debugger to support source code debugging on quad-core machines. TotalView Individual Edition allows developers to either completely debug an application on their workstation, or to maximize productivity by beginning debugging activities on the workstation before transferring to scarce large scale development machines. TotalView also announced a new lower price for its current TotalView Individual Edition license for debugging on single or dual-core core machines.
The TotalView Individual Edition license is available at a price of $849 for the quad-core version and $559 for the single and dual-core version. Both options are eligible for TotalView Technologies' classroom discount. Check out our new campus TotalView license offering with discounts up to 80%. Contact Beryl Sachs at beryl.sachs@totalviewtech.com for more information. |
TotalView Technologies recently announced that it has partnered with international software reseller XLsoft Corporation to market its advanced TotalView and MemoryScape debuggers to the Japanese market. XLsoft will become a distributor for all TotalView Technologies software development products, and will provide maintenance, documentation and training sessions in Japan. |
TotalView Passes 12,000 Seat Milestone for TotalView Debugger
TotalView recently announced that it has passed the 12,000 seat milestone in deploying its TotalView Debugger to research, government and commercial enterprises worldwide. With this rapidly growing user base, the TotalView Debugger now covers more than 2,000,000 cores. | |
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