Students at IIT Madras debug and profile parallel code in record time, using Allinea DDT and Allinea MAP 2013-10-28, Madras, India – Parallel computing students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India (IIT Madras) have cut their debugging and profiling time by almost a third, and improved the scalability of their code, thanks to the use of Allinea Software’s tools. Demand for parallel programming skills is rapidly taking off in Indian Universities as students who have traditionally been taught sequential coding skills realize they are going to be in huge demand in the near future. There has also been a rapid growth in HPC usage in India, with a rising presence on the Top500 list. Read more at http://www.allinea.com/news/

1. Case Study: Allinea tools help
India’s students cut code
development time by a third
Students at IIT
Madras debug and
profile parallel code
in record time, using
Allinea DDT and
Allinea MAP
Parallel computing students at the
Indian Institute of Technology in
Madras, India (IIT Madras) have
cut their debugging and profiling
time by almost a third, and
improved the scalability of their
code, thanks to the use of Allinea
Software’s tools.
Demand for parallel programming
skills is rapidly taking off in Indian
Universities as students who have
traditionally been taught sequential
coding skills realize they are going
to be in huge demand in the
near future. There has also been
a rapid growth in HPC usage in
India, with a rising presence on the
Top 500 list.
Professor Sunil Kumar, Head of
High Performance Computing at
IIT Madras is determined to help
his students get the best possible
training. Recognizing that the
Institute did not have enough staff
to help the students when they
hit problems, he began looking
into the best way to ensure each
trainee parallel coder learns what
they need to know.
Allinea Software’s online training
sessions have been a particular
‘hit’ with students, who are keen to
ensure they understand everything
the tools can offer.
When he saw a demonstration
of the debugger Allinea DDT,
Professor Kumar knew he had
found what he was looking for.
Alongside, Allinea MAP the
,
performance profiling tool, it
provided a fully rounded solution
to the students’ issues.
“While there are other commercial
and open-source tools on the
HPC market, Allinea Software’s
support and leadership in the field
made the decision an easy one”,
Professor Kumar says.
“The easy to follow, informative
GUI is the way forward for us. We
have a mixture of users consisting
of experienced users and many
students who are just getting
exposed to parallel programming
or software development. We find
Allinea Software’s tools help the
whole spectrum of our users,”
Professor Kumar says.
“Allinea MAP lets students profile
their code without the need to
instrument, and without degrading
their application’s performance
during run time – and presents
results within a GUI that is easy
for new students to understand”,
Professor Kumar says. “Allinea
DDT has helped to identify
frustrating errors in code that
simply don’t show up with other
debuggers, including identifying
memory leaks.”
Jacques Philouze, Allinea
Software’s Vice President of
Sales, EMEA, says: “Our products
are ideal both for learners and
experienced users – we’re really
pleased with the feedback we
have had from students and
management at IIT Madras: the
next generation is developing
great skills for the future.”

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