What is Arm Forge?
Build reliable and optimized code for the right results on multiple Server and HPC architectures, from the latest compilers and C++ 11 standards to Intel, 64-bit Arm, AMD, OpenPOWER and Nvidia GPU hardware. Arm Forge combinesArm DDT, the leading debugger for time-saving high performance application debugging, and Arm MAP, the trusted performance profiler for invaluable optimization advice.
Arm Forge includes:
Fast application debugging
Arm DDT is the debugger of choice for developing C++, C or Fortran parallel and threaded applications on CPUs, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi. Its powerful intuitive graphical interface helps you easily detect memory bugs and divergent behavior at all scales.
Low-overhead profiling
Profile your code without distorting application behavior. Arm MAP is a scalable low-overhead profiler of C++, C, and Fortran applications, helping you accelerate your code. From multicore Linux workstations to the largest supercomputers, you can profile realistic test cases with typically less than 5% runtime overhead.
Features and Benefits
Cross Platform:
Moving to a new architecture or system is challenging enough without having to learn a new tool chain at the same time. Arm DDT and MAP run everywhere — on your own laptop, the latest supercomputer, and tomorrow’s upcoming architectures. With Forge you can automatically detect memory bugs and profile behavior at all scales on Arm 64-bit, Intel Xeon, Intel Xeon Phi, NVIDIA GPUs , and OpenPOWER.
Fast Debug:
Arm DDT is the debugger of choice for developing of C++, C or Fortran parallel, and threaded applications on CPUs, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi. Its powerful intuitive graphical interface helps you easily detect memory bugs and divergent behavior at all scales, making Arm DDT the number one debugger in research, industry and academia.
Low-overhead Profiling:
Profile your code without distorting application behavior. Arm MAP is Arm Forge’s scalable low-overhead profiler of C++, C, and Fortran with no instrumentation or code changes required. It helps developers accelerate their code by revealing the causes of slow performance. From multicore Linux workstations to the largest supercomputers, you can profile realistic test cases with typically less than 5% runtime overhead.
Short Learning Curve:
Arm DDT offers a powerful intuitive GUI that sets the standard for multi-process and multi-threaded debugging. Complex software debugging is made simple whether you’re working on a PC or offline, with the help of zero-click variable comparisons, built-in memory debugging, and powerful array visualizations — for today’s increasingly parallel processors, clusters, and supercomputers.
Wide Issue Coverage:
Arm MAP exposes a wide set of performance indicators, including MPI metrics, PAPI counters, IO metrics, energy metrics and even your own custom metrics. Profile computation (with self and child and call tree representations over time), thread activity (to identify over-subscribed cores and sleeping threads that waste CPU time for OpenMP and pthreads), instruction types, as well as synchronization and I/O performance.
Single and Multi Threaded Profiling:
Arm MAP profiles parallel, multithreaded, and single threaded C, C++, Fortran, and F90 codes, providing in-depth analysis and bottleneck pinpointing to the source line. Unlike most profilers , it can profile pthreads, OpenMP or MPI for parallel and threaded code, including communication and workload imbalance issues for MPI and multi-process codes.
Case Sduties
BAE Systems – Advanced Technology Center
By analyzing issues that slow simulations, Arm tools help improve the throughput of computer aided engineering software on supercomputers and clusters. Specifically tailored to parallel and high performance code, the tools help ISVs, open source developers, and in-house code teams increase the throughput, reliability, and scalability of their software.
Met Office – Weather and Climate
Arm technology helps improve the pace and precision of forecasting. Arm provides the weather community with development tools that can handle the size of today’s weather systems.
Medical University of Graz – Life Sciences
Arm tools help life science researchers and developers to accelerate the performance of their code and to spend less time struggling with bugs, while system owners achieve higher throughput from their technology.
Argonne National Laboratory – Government Research and National Labs
Using the best debugger frees up scientists’ time to be more creative and productive. The Arm debugger tool is transforming scientific software processes and enabling scientists to make breakthroughs for engineering, physical and earth sciences, chemistry and biology.
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