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Press release Acumem introduces support for Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed NehalemUppsala, Sweden, June 8 2009: Acumem, a provider of intelligent performance optimization software for single- and multi-core environments today announces that it now has full support for the new Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors in its Acumem ThreadSpotter and Acumem SlowSpotter™ performance optimization tools including the recently launched Windows version. Acumem patented technology allows programmers of multi-core or multi-threaded systems to fully utilize the performance of their system in a very simple and user-friendly way. “Introduction of new multicore processors is happening at a rapid pace” says Erik Hagersten, CTO Acumem. “Intel’s new processors accelerate this trend and it is critical that software is optimized to take full advantage of the opportunities. Together we reach great results” he adds. ”Innovation in supporting Intel multicore processors is very important for software developers these days and computing performance is critical to Intel and our customers,” said James Reinders, director and chief evangelist for Intel Software Development Products. “Acumem has experience in helping with both of these challenges, and now brings that expertise to Intel’s latest processors.” The performance impact of moving applications to new multicore architectures is significant and can be further enhanced by adapting the application code to the specific features of the multicore architecture. Acumem ThreadSpotter analyzes application bottle necks such as multi-threaded interaction, memory bandwidth and cache utilization based on the specifics of a certain processor. The resulting analysis is presented as clear advice to programmers on what to optimize and how to do it, increasing both performance of the application and productivity of the programmer releasing the full potential of the new processors. During the work of verifying Intel® Xeon® processor on ThreadSpotter the results gained were outstanding. Acumem first ran the open source application LBM (flow simulations based on the Lattice-Boltzmann method) on the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor E5345. The next step was to optimize and run on the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 Series. The combination of Acumem ThreadSpotter and Intel Xeon processor 5500 Series provided a throughput improvement of more than a factor six of which about half could be isolated to the optimization based on advice from Acumem ThreadSpotter. These finding clearly show that new Intel Xeon processor 5500 Series provides significant performance improvements which can be significantly enhanced using Acumem tools.
― END ― 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 Sun, Intel, Microsoft and AMD. The technology is hardware and language independent and for example works for C, C++, Fortran, Ada, and Assembler. It also has support for Linux, Solaris and Windows. Acumem is a privately held company based in Uppsala, Sweden. www.acumem.com __________ |