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Etnus TotalView Available On IBM Power Linux

Etnus announced the availability of TotalView 6.6, which adds new support for IBM hardware and software.

TotalView is an advanced 32- and 64-bit graphical debugger providing software engineers with complete control over threaded and parallel applications written in C, C++ or Fortran. Not your average debugger, TotalView also provides unique, proprietary memory debugging technology that neither instruments code nor alters libraries. TotalView's memory debugging features are fully integrated into the debugger. And, the user experience is enhanced by an on-demand, view-based approach that eliminates the need to wait for post-mortem style reports common in stand-alone memory tools.

TotalView 6.6 is available for the first time on IBM Power systems running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0. "When software engineers move their code from one platform to the next, they don't want to have to learn a new debugger," describes Mary Kay Bunde, Director of Marketing at Etnus. "TotalView is available on most major Linux and UNIX platforms, easing ports of mission critical code from one platform to the next."

In addition to TotalView now running on Linux on IBM Power systems, it also now supports the most recent version of AIX, 5.3, on IBM Power systems, along with xlf 9.1 and Visual Age 7 on AIX. Other features include the addition of the Intel EM64T architecture, SuSE 9.1 and SLES 9.0 distributions, and other minor feature enhancements.

Long known for it's superior ability to debug parallel and threaded code, TotalView offers the developer unrivaled ability to debug applications that use multithreading, MPI and OpenMP. Advanced features, such as heap allocation debugging, data analysis, and STLView for easy reading of standard template library data, provide unique capabilities to find and eliminate problems in complex applications.

About Etnus

Etnus is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis solutions for complex code. Etnus products provide software engineers with the ability to visualize, control and correct complex applications running on a wide variety of platforms and using one to thousands of processors. They offer significant productivity gains in application development, helping to eliminate the frustration, delays, and headaches inherent in analyzing multi-process, multi- thread, and network-distributed applications containing many lines of code or advanced programming techniques such as MPI, threads, and OpenMP.

Etnus products are used in the development of applications in industries such as weather prediction, film special effects and animation, oil and gas exploration, CAD/CAM software development, automotive, aerospace, finance and telecommunications. Privately held, Etnus offers its expanding product line through worldwide resellers and direct sales. 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: http://www.etnus.com; e-mail: info@etnus.com.