Case Study: HRL meets deadlines and halves development time with Rogue Wave Software's TotalView

CNES Team Beats Application Development Deadlines with more Features

HRL’s CNES team faced tight contractual schedules for a multi‑year cortical simulation project and hit a roadblock when moving their large codebase to a 200‑GPU CUDA cluster: command‑line and open source debugging tools couldn’t scale past a few nodes and threatened delivery of required features. After evaluating options, they selected Rogue Wave Software’s TotalView (TotalView for CUDA) to address their CUDA+MPI debugging and development needs.

Rogue Wave Software delivered TotalView for CUDA, giving the team full visibility into GPU device threads, MPI message queues and hierarchical memory; within a day they fixed a bug that had stalled progress for weeks. The result was a dramatic productivity gain—development and full testing that once took over two weeks now takes less than one week—allowing HRL to add more features, improve performance and scale their simulations past 100 GPUs.

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Kirill Minkovich

Ph.D. Research Staff Member