Pallas GmbH, their Software Tools and hpcLine

Karlsruhe 02 May 2001 During the SAVE meeting, Werner Krotz-Vogel, Pallas, showed their offering for the Fujitsu Siemens Computer hpcLine. Pallas covers the part of software tools and compilers.

Pallas offers debugging and profiling tools with MPI. Krotz-Vogel listed the tools for the hpcLine:

PGI 3.2, x86 compiler and Cluster Development Kit (Portland Group)

PBS Pro, flexible workload management system (Portable batch System)

KAP/Pro Toolset 3.9 for OpenMP

KAI C++ 4.0 ISO standard, platform independent

FORESYS, Fortran restructuring tool and Fortran 90 migration

Etnus TotalView 4.1, multiprocessing debugger

Vampir 2.5 performance measurement

Vampitrace 2.0

Werner Krotz-Vogel described in some detail the properties and content of the tool packages. The PGI Cluster Development Kit contains compilers for C, C++, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, HPF, SMP/OpenMP support for C, C++, F77 and F90 plus convenient add-ons like parallel ScaLAPACK, optimised BLAS, LAPACK, MPI/mpich, PVM, PBS, tutorials, examples and cluster management utilities. PBS is the flexible workload management system and offers a unified interface to all computing resources. It supports all major Unix, SMPs, clusters, parallel jobs, MPI plus GLOBUS plus Unicore.

The TotalView debugger can be used for C, C++, F77, F90, HPF, OpenMP, threads, PVM, MPI, and distributed processing. It is available for a variety of platforms, Linux x86, Linux Alpha, Tru64 Alpha, SGI, Sun SPARC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM RS/6000, IBM SP, Fujitsu Siemens VPP, Cray, NEC SX and Cenju, Hitachi SR, Quadrics CS, Lynx real time OS and CSP (VXworks).

Vampir (Visualization and Analysis of MPI programmes) can be used for performance analysis. The user can zoom into details of his programme, e.g. subroutines. For hpcLine systems, ScaMPI support for TotalView and Vampirtrace was recently added. Free evaluation copies can be downloaded.

http://www.pallas.com

Uwe Harms

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