TotalView Memory Debugger now Available on IBM Blue Gene/L; Interactive Memory Debugging Shortens Development Time

Business Wire, Feb 21, 2006

NATICK, Mass. -- Etnus LLC, provider of TotalView(R) -- THE debugger for complex code -- announced today the release of version 7.1.1. This version supports memory debugging on the IBM Blue Gene/L platform. With TotalView, software programmers on Blue Gene/L and other supported platforms can perform interactive source code and memory debugging within the same session -- making it easier to find and fix memory problems.

The world's most advanced debugger on Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X, TotalView enhances developer productivity through unique, proprietary memory debugging technology that neither instruments code nor alters libraries. Memory debugging is typically associated with stand-alone tools. TotalView's on-demand, view-based approach to memory debugging eliminates the need to wait for post-mortem style reports common in stand-alone memory tools.

TotalView's interactive memory debugger enables programmers and software developers to:

--Identify memory leaks and the place in the program where the leaked memory was allocated.

--Graphically display heap memory.

--Stop program execution in real time when problems such as freeing memory occur, to identify exactly when and where the problem occurs.

--Identify dangling pointers.

--Compare memory states.

--Save memory states, for comparison within the same program or future executions.

--Interactively filter memory information, to enable focus on what is important.

--Paint memory when it is allocated, so programmers can identify when memory is being used before it should be.

The TotalView Blue Gene/L Memory Debugger also lets developers evaluate fixes to memory problems without recompiling, and includes a variety of advanced and state-of-the-art memory debugging features that help developers find and eliminate even the most difficult heap allocation errors and leaks.

Fully-functional TotalView trial licenses may be downloaded from the Etnus website at http://www.etnus.com/Try/index.php.> About Etnus

Etnus is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis solutions for complex code. Etnus products enable software engineers to visualize, control and correct complex UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X applications running on development machines with single, dual core or multiple processors. Etnus' flagship product, TotalView(R), promotes significant productivity gains by helping to eliminate the frustration, delays, and headaches involved in debugging complex, multi-process, multi-thread and network-distributed applications containing many lines of code.

Etnus products are used in the development of high performance computing applications as well as those found in such industries as weather prediction, film special effects and animation, oil and gas exploration, CAD/CAM software development, automotive, aerospace, finance and telecommunications. They are especially well suited for today's new dual core programming environments. Privately held, Etnus offers its expanding product line through direct sales and worldwide resellers.

For more information contact Etnus LLC at: 24 Prime Parkway, Natick, MA 01760; phone: 800-856-3766 (U.S.A.), 1-508-652-7700 (outside U.S.A.); fax: 508-652-7701; web: www.etnus.com; e-mail: info@etnus.com.