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Press release Acumem releases full support Windows HPC Server 2008Uppsala, Sweden, March 16 2009: Acumem, a provider of intelligent software for single- and multi-core environments today announced that its full product suit of performance tools fully support Windows HPC server 2008
The support is valid for both Acumem SlowSpotter and ThreadSpotter and allows users to optimize their applications quickly and efficiently for a multicore environment. "As the industry moves its existing software base to multicore systems, new bottlenecks often lead to failure to achieve the expected performance improvement," says Shahrokh Mortazavi, architect for HPC at Microsoft. "Acumem’s tools have the required capabilities to detect the cause as well as recommending fixes for bandwidth-hungry behavior and wasteful cache utilization, the two most common problems for performance critical-applications running in multi-core environments.” Acumem SlowSpotter and Acumem ThreadSpotter are the first of a new generation of performance analysis tools from Acumem. They allow the Windows developer to quantify and locate performance problems quickly and simply, displaying an absolute index of the potential performance boost for each SlowspotTM identified. This greatly increases the productivity of the development process in performance-critical applications since the developer is presented with an immediate cost/benefit analysis of the potential gain to be obtained following optimization of the offending code. Acumem’s tools are particularly effective in a multicore environment, where the competition between cores for memory bandwidth becomes most acute. Not only will Acumem ThreadSpotter be able to provide the location and magnitude of any performance bottlenecks, but it will also identify when multiple threads and/or applications are competing with each other inefficiently for memory access. “At Microsoft, we are committed to having the best solutions for our users. Acumem’s tools give an additional opportunity for performance optimization which is critical in the HPC space.” says Vince Mendillo, director of HPC marketing at Microsoft. “Multi-core is an important area for Microsoft and adding tools in this area is a natural path forward.” “We have had a strong interest from the Windows community for our performance tools so this is a major step for Acumem,” says Mats Hovmöller, CEO Acumem. “Windows HPC Server 2008 is growing quickly in the High Performance market and we are delighted to be part of this solution.” Acumem‘s technology allows programmers to optimize code for the multi-core paradigm shift and hence enables owners of systems and applications to get the best performance from their multi-core system. Acumem SlowSpotter™ has proven to increase throughput in many applications by a factor of five, improving general scalability, saving processor cycles and decreasing power consumption.
Acumem AB About Acumem Acumem is a provider of intelligent software which analyzes and optimizes the computing performance in single- and multi-core environments. Acumem contributes to their customers’ success in maximizing the benefits of multi-core technology, achieving the full potential of their systems. Acumem has partnership with leading companies in the multi-core market such as HP, Sun and AMD. Acumem is a privately held company based in Uppsala, Sweden with sales office in Boston, USA. Acumem has been awarded the Red Herring Top 100 Europe award as one of Europe’s most promising high tech companies. www.acumem.com About SlowSpotter SlowSpotter identifies an application’s slow spots, i.e., parts of the code which can be improved to run faster. For each slow spot, its location in the source code is identified, fixes for how it can be avoided is suggested and its overall importance for application improvement is presented. Through a user friendly User Interface hands on advice is given to the programmer on how to solve the performance issues identified.
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