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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 Inte 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.