"This agreement will provide Terra Soft's customers access to the leading scalar and parallel computing development toolkit for Cell BE on the market", stated Kai Staats, Terra Soft CEO. "Allinea's DDT and OPT will enable programmers to locate and fix problems quickly to maximize performance for a wide range of Cell BE-based applications - from lightweight clustering of Sony PS3s to intensive high performance computing with the IBM QS22 BladeCenter blades. We are proud to offer our customers the best Cell BE debugger and optimization tools on the market ... products that can handle the demands of parallel HPC programming, yet are easy to learn and use."

"We are very excited about our reseller agreement with Terra Soft as they are one of the most recognized providers of solutions for the Cell BE architecture", stated Jacques Philouze, Vice President Sales & Marketing of Allinea Software. "We were looking for a competent reseller to address the Cell BE market and chose Terra Soft because of their strong ties with Sony and IBM, who co-developed the Cell BE technology with Toshiba."

DDT is recognized as the industry's most technically advanced tool for debugging parallel applications, with a graphical interface acclaimed for its ease-of-use, short learning curve and rapid ROI. DDT includes features specifically for Cell BE platforms - for example the at-a-glance parallel stack view which is used when controlling thousands of processes simultaneously also shows PPE and SPE threads seamlessly, simplifying control over PPE and SPE threads, clusters of Cells and their data. Its latest release, DDT 2.3, also brings a leap in performance at scale.

OPT sets the industry standard in performance analysis and optimization of parallel codes for C, C++ and Fortran MPI applications. The recently-released OPT 1.4 incorporates Cell-specific enhancements such as an improved statistical sampler, an intuitive time view of performance data metrics, better error reporting, and a troubleshooting guide.

"With the new features of DDT and OPT designed specifically for Cell BE, we can provide Terra Soft's customers a common interface across multiple processor architectures", stated Jacques Philouze. "This will help simplify the end-user experience and minimize programmers' development time, providing optimized system performance and productivity, as well as a reduction in the total cost of ownership."

Both DDT and OPT are compatible with operating systems such as AIX, Linux and Solaris on X86, X86-64, IA64, Power, Cell and UltraSPARC processors.

Allinea Software will be exhibiting at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC2008) in Dresden, Germany from June 17-20, 2008.