Testimonials

Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, Merrill Lynch   

"I first tried Acumem SlowSpotter on some highly optimized code.

To my big surprise, it immediately identified some performance improvement opportunity in a structure originally designed for perfect cache usage. A new version of a library had silently altered the size of a data structure and this had destroyed the performance.

No other tool would have managed to pinpoint such a problem in such an obvious and intuitive manner!"

Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, Chief Architect, Merrill Lynch

Anders Furuhed, Pantor Engineering   

“At Pantor we use SlowSpotter to quickly gain a thorough understanding of code performance qualities.  We also use SlowSpotter on a regular basis to alert us of harmful code and to quickly catch performance regressions. It improves performance work productivity by offering unique insight into these problems.”

Anders Furuhed, CTO, Pantor Engineering

Bjorn Andersson, Sun Microsystems   

“When we first looked at Acumem VPE, we were intrigued by its claims to be able to deliver a unique level of insight into application code behaviour in our HPC systems.

We have since exposed the technology to several of our performance experts and they used it on actual code.

Based on that evaluation, we have now decided to add it to the set of tools they use to find and fix multicore performance bottlenecks in a wide range of data-intensive applications.”

Bjorn Andersson, Director, HPC and Integrated Systems, SUN Microsystems

Dieter an Mey, Aachen University   

"Using Acumem VPE to drill down and find code slowspots, the productivity gain in our performance tuning process is nothing short of amazing.

Previously, we would have had to sort through a vast amount of raw data, which is quite tedious - and even then we would have had no clear indication of which measures to take.

In one recent case, we were able to identify what appeared to be a trivial issue in a Contact Analysis Simulation of Bevel Gears. We had thought that this code was already extremely cache friendly, but Acumem VPE showed us that there was still considerable room for improvement.“

Dieter an Mey, HPC Team Lead, Aachen University, Germany

Josh Simons, Sun Microsystems in HPC Wire Article   

“Any tool that lowers the barrier to taking advantage of these [multi-core] processors is going to be critical. It's clear that this focus on memory bandwidth is going to go far beyond HPC. To me that's huge.”

Josh Simons, Distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems

Read the article about Acumem in HPCwire>>

Ed Turkel, HP   

“To accelerate innovation and improve business success, HP's HPC customers need solutions that simplify the discovery of performance bottlenecks for multicore architectures, HP's Multicore Toolkit used in conjunction with Acumem SlowSpotter, offers customers a complete multicore hardware and software solution that maximizes application performance by identifying potential code problems before they become critical issues."

Ed Turkel, Manager of HPC Product Marketing for HP's Scalable Computing and Infrastructure Organization