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This is a preliminary list of programming tools that (hopefully) will be available on the new IBM supercomputer. Without any rating as to ease of use, or even usefulness.
  • xxlf, a graphical interface to the Fortran compiler.
  • pdbx the parallel version of dbx (line-oriented).
  • pedb the parallel debugger (window-oriented) - this program has been removed as of PE version 3.2
  • totalview for debugging parallel applications.
  • gprof, for profiling your code.
  • xprofiler, for profiling your code. (A visual interface to the gprof command.)
  • vt, trace visualization tool - this program has been removed as of PE version 3.2
  • hpmcount, for performance analysis of your code (displays hardware performance counters).
  • hpmviz, for visualizing the hardware performance of your program.
  • monitor displays what is going on in the machine - this is based on the classic program of Jussi Mäki.
  • nmon displays what is going on in the machine - Nigel's monitor for multiprocessor IBMs.
  • topas, yet another monitoring tool (provided by IBM)
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