The Holland Computing Center HPC support team at the University of Nebraska has introduced Allinea Software’s unified debugging and profiling tools to help users get their scientific results faster.
The HPC support team provides services across four clusters – a total of around 20,000 compute cores – for the University of Nebraska campuses in Lincoln, Omaha and Kearney. The team provides assistance to many users of large MPI (Message Passing Interface) applications for the physics, chemistry and biology departments – and, increasingly, the University’s medical center.
Users come to the HPC support team to discover why their code is running slow, and, often, why it does not work as expected. Trying to work out the issues in user’s applications was becoming a major time sink for the team.
David Lecomber, CEO, Allinea Software, says, “Providing application support for so many users and their applications is a hard challenge. We are glad to be helping Nebraska’s Holland Computing Center in this task. Scalable integrated debugging and profiling tools make a major impact on HPC applications teams – and getting those tools into the hands of users is incredibly empowering for the users: they soon realize that they have the power and ability to make a difference to their own code’s performance and capability too.”
The support team is now ensuring all users have access to the Allinea Software tools and understand what the tools can do for them.
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