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SPECIAL COVERAGE FROM ISC2006: Latest release also supports asynchronous thread debugging on Solaris -- Etnus LLC, maker of TotalView – the world’s most scalable multi-process debugger on Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X – announced today at the Sun HPC Consortium the release of TotalView Version 7.3 featuring support for Solaris-Opteron. This latest version of TotalView also provides asynchronous thread control on both Solaris SPARC and Solaris-Opteron platforms. With this feature, developers in these environments can diagnose and solve dreaded “race conditions” in complex multi-threaded programs. “Since 1993, Etnus has supported the debugging needs of over 250 customers running on Sun platforms”, comments Scott Tate, Vice President of Marketing at Etnus. “This latest release reflects our continued commitment to empower Sun users to create the most sophisticated programs possible without compromising the reliability, accuracy and speed of their debugging.” Bjorn Anderson, Sr. Director of HPC Marketing at Sun Microsystems, notes, “With TotalView, developers can now rely on one best-of-breed parallel debugger to identify challenging source code and memory problems in both Solaris SPARC and Solaris-Opteron environments. As a result, developers don’t have to spend time learning to use a different debugger.” TotalView Version 7.3 also includes support for Sun Studio 11 compilers for both Sun SPARC and Solaris-Opteron. It also includes an improved Message Queue Graph feature, which helps diagnose MPI deadlocks by finding and highlighting cycles within even very complex graphs.