TotalView Technologies announces availability of memoryscape 2.0 for MAC OS X
Newest Version of Powerful Memory Debugger Enables MPI and Remote
Application Debugging
Natick, MA- May 29, 2007 – TotalView Technologies, the world’s leading
provider of debugging and analysis software solutions for the multi-core
age, today announced the availability of MemoryScape 2.0, a new version of
its powerful memory debugger for Mac OS X applications. MemoryScape 2.0
extends the product’s capabilities to allow memory debugging of MPI and
remote applications, among other advanced features.
MemoryScape is an easy-to-use, graphical, interactive memory debugger that
helps developers identify, inspect and resolve difficult memory problems in
C, C++ and Fortran, including complex multi-process and multi-threaded
programs for Mac OS X. Designed to be an integrated part of the software
development process, MemoryScape allows developers to watch for memory
leaks and monitor memory usage while an application is running. It enables
developers to monitor heap memory, view memory usage, locate memory leaks,
track memory events and show corrupted memory. Developers can save and
compare memory states and compile sophisticated memory reports. In
addition, MemoryScape is non-intrusive, so developers can find memory
problems without recompiling.
“Memory bugs are one of the most frequent and challenging issues that a
developer has to deal with,” said Addison Snell, vice president and general
manager of Tabor Research, a market intelligence firm specializing in HPC.
“There is a real need in the high-performance computing market for simple,
easy-to-use debugging tools that can enable developers to quickly find and
resolve difficult memory problems.”
MemoryScape 2.0 includes the following new features:
MPI Application Memory Debugging
* MemoryScape works with MPICH 1 and 2 , LAM, Open MPI, MVAPICH, Quadrics,
MPT, Intel MPI, IBM POE, and Sun Cluster Tools
Remote Application Memory Debugging
Views into Heap Allocation
* Look at the data contained with a heap block
Improved Navigation
* Switch from view to view within the same process
* Navigate across a browser like history list
Time Stamping of Memory Events
Filter Heap Data Based on Backtrace ID
Wide Hardware and Operating System Support
* MemoryScape supports Apple OS X (Power and Intel). In addition, it also
supports Linux (RedHat and SuSE varieties on x86, AMD64, Intel 64bit x86,
ia64 and Power) and Unix (AIX, Solaris Sparc and Solaris AMD64)
Team Licensing
* Process token-based licensing
* Tokens can be aggregated to support rare large jobs
“We are dedicated to building on the success of the 1.0 version to extend
MemoryScape’s debugging capabilities for Mac OS X,” said Dick Andersen,
vice president of sales and marketing at TotalView Technologies. “These new
features significantly enhance MemoryScape’s functionality and will enable
developers to achieve even greater productivity and quality improvements as
they continue to tackle the challenges of developing multi-core,
multi-threaded applications.”
About TotalView Technologies
TotalView Technologies (formerly Etnus) is the world’s leading provider of
debugging and analysis software solutions for the multi-core age. TotalView
Technologies products enable software developers to quickly, easily and
effectively debug UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X applications running on
development machines with single, dual-core, multi-core, or multiple
processors.
For more than 20 years, TotalView Technologies products have been at work
in research institutions, government laboratories, and technical computing
centers, as well as commercial enterprises in the financial services,
telecommunications, biotech, aerospace, weather prediction, film special
effects and animation, oil and gas exploration, and computer-aided
engineering markets. Recognized worldwide as the gold standard for
debugging in high-performance, distributed or cluster computing
environments, TotalView Technologies’ award-winning technology is used to
solve the world’s toughest computing problems on many of the world’s
largest supercomputers. For more information, visit
(http://www.totalviewtech.com/).
