May 16 — The Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) is helping scientists and researchers to unleash their potential and accelerate a host of important supercomputer based discoveries using tools from Allinea, the leading provider of software for developing and optimizing high performance code. Allinea’s software tools will be used to speed up code performance and results for users of its state of the art new machine for High Performance Computing (HPC) based research. The new Tier-1 Top500 NEC cluster is expected to go live in October 2016, replacing the previous Tier-1 and representing Belgium’s largest investment in HPC to date.
The supercomputer will be hosted at KU Leuven, one of five Flemish University Associations who manage the virtual center, alongside the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). VSC Tier-1 project leader, Ingrid Barcena, says, “Our investment in new hardware establishes the VSC as a key site for funded HPC research but the unique selling point for our center will be our outstanding support for users in developing faster code that delivers more science.”
Since 2007, thousands of academic researchers and industrial users have accessed VSC to speed up their ground-breaking work in developing new materials, drugs and weather and climate research. Barcena continues: “Allinea Forge will be central to our role in enabling faster research as its debugger and profiler are easy enough for users to understand important aspects such as what’s happening with memory resources and computation. This will help researchers to be more productive on a system which is already three times more powerful than the one it will be replacing. Altogether, this presents exciting potential for our current users to make research efficiency gains and to demonstrate the true potential of HPC in non-traditional fields such as social science, big data and industry”
CEO and Founder of Allinea, David Lecomber comments: “We are delighted to be supporting VSC in providing better education to its users around code efficiency. The fact of the matter is, without visibility of code performance, researchers cannot get the full value from HPC. By appreciating how their code makes a difference to project delivery, researchers can achieve more for less cost. By underlining this best practice, VSC’s approach is one that is refreshing and makes great economic sense.”
About Allinea
Allinea Software is the trusted leader in software development tools and application performance analytics for high performance computing (HPC).
Leading users of HPC turn to Allinea for extremely scalable, capable and intuitive tools that improve the efficiency and value of their HPC investment by reducing development time and increasing application performance.
Allinea’s tools are relied upon in fields ranging from climate modeling to astrophysics, and computational finance to engine design.
About VSC
The Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) was established by the Flemish Government in December 2007 with the aim to join the efforts of the five Flemish university to align and integrate their existing supercomputer infrastructures, to make their expertise available to public and private funded research and to develop a technical and financial plan for the construction of a competitive grid and HPC infrastructure available to all researchers in Flanders.
About KU Leuven
Situated in Belgium, KU Leuven has been a centre of learning for nearly six centuries. Founded in 1425, KU Leuven is one of the oldest and most renowned universities in Europe. With more than 55,000 students and 7,000 researchers KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that carries out both fundamental and applied research. It is strongly inter- and multidisciplinary in focus and strives for international excellence.
Source: Allinea Software