SCIENCE

Rogue Wave Software has announced that LLNL will increase its usage of Rogue Wave's performance debugger, Acumem ThreadSpotter.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a premier national security laboratory, with a mission to advance and apply science and technology to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent; reduce or counter threats to national and global security; enhance the energy and environmental security of the nation and strengthen the nation's economic competitiveness.

LLNL has used Acumem's tools for code optimization since early 2009. "The national security research we conduct requires computational technology that allows programmers to optimize their codes and thereby get the best performance from their systems. By working with industry leaders, such as Acumem, LLNL is able to do some of the most advanced software development for some of the world's most powerful supercomputers faster while reducing costs," said Mike Kumbera, a LLNL software engineer.

"We are delighted to see LLNL extend and expand their use of our tools and we're proud to do our part in helping the labs execute their mission," said Brian Pierce, Rogue Wave CEO. "Whether it's a supercomputing center like LLNL, or the IT shop of a commercial enterprise, Rogue Wave's mission is to make the development of parallel, data-intensive applications... easier. ThreadSpotter, in particular is easy to use, making this an ideal tool for both performance experts and non-experts to optimize their code for multicore performance."