Lifeboat Distribution services an extensive network of international solution providers, VARs, systems integrators, consultants and application developers worldwide. Lifeboat will offer Acumem solutions to its global network of over 7000 resellers.

"We're pleased to add Acumem's multi-core tools to our portfolio", stated Dan Jamieson, vice president and general manager of Lifeboat Distribution. "Our application lifecycle solution providers can derive business advantage for themselves and deliver great value to their end-customers - helping them maximize their multi-core processor investments through improved multi-threaded performance for their enterprise and database applications."

Acumem's technology enables owners of systems and applications to get the best performance from their system or application in a multi-core environment. Acumem does this by allowing programmers to optimize their own - or others' - code for the multi-core paradigm shift. The target users of the tools are programmers, both optimization experts and non-expert, whereas the customers and people benefiting from the results are also found among system owners, development managers, performance evaluators, benchmarks teams, etc.

Through the identification of SlowSpots, Acumem's tools help programmers to go directly to the parts of the code where improvement potential exists without any need to go through thousands of lines of code and vast amounts of data. Acumem SlowSpotter has proven to increase throughput in many applications by a factor of five, improving general scalability, saving processor cycles and decreasing power consumption.

Acumem SlowSpotter Pro is the Expert version of Acumem SlowSpotter. It mainly targets programmers with expert knowledge in performance optimization and gives more options in the data capture part, allows for an unlimited number of threads to be analysed and also advises on more complex code changes than Acumem SlowSpotter. Just as Acumem SlowSpotter, the Pro version gives hands-on advice based on analysis of cache and bandwidth related performance problems for single- and multi-core systems.