Acumem’s SlowSpotter Reveals Bottlenecks in HPC Applications

By DE Editors

Many HPC applications scale poorly when migrating to multicore systems, often running far below expected performance. Finding the cause of the problem is often a lot harder than fixing it.

Using the Acumem SlowSpotter analysis tool from Acumem, developers can now identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in application code without requiring a deep understanding of the system’s processor, cache, and memory sub-system. The company says developers can boost application performance by as much as 2 to 3 times.

Now detailed information can be extracted from the application, which then undergoes analysis by Acumem SlowSpotter, providing the information needed to locate and fix the performance problems.

Acumem also announced Acumem SpotLite, a free download version of Acumem SlowSpotter that lets potential users evaluate the tool’s effectiveness. Offering more limited functionality, Acumem SpotLite uses the same underlying technology as Acumem SlowSpotter to analyze performance bottlenecks in the user’s application code.

Acumem SlowSpotter and Acumem SpotLite are available now for Linux/x86 and Solaris/x86 systems. Acumem SpotLite is available for free download from Acumem.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.