Case Study: OpenGeoSolutions reduces development time by months with Rogue Wave Software's TotalView

TotalView Helps OpenGeoSolutions Reduce Development Time by Months

OpenGeoSolutions, a geophysical services firm that delivers spectral decomposition, inversion and high-end signal analysis for the petroleum industry, faced frequent surprises from its large OpenSeis codebase that could stall processing and jeopardize the company’s required two‑week customer turnaround. After trying several tools, OpenGeoSolutions selected Rogue Wave Software’s TotalView debugger as the only solution that provided the programmer-friendly, Linux‑based, multi‑language and parallel debugging capabilities they needed to quickly diagnose and recover from failures.

Rogue Wave Software implemented TotalView, enabling source‑level and run‑time inspection, array visualization, memory/error detection and parallel debugging across FORTRAN, C and C++ code. As a result, OpenGeoSolutions cut development time by months, reduced bugs during initial code runs, preserved tight two‑week delivery schedules, and accelerated R&D and code optimizations that improved performance — measurable gains in turnaround time and developer productivity driven by TotalView.

OpenGeoSolutions

Paul Garossino

Professional Geophysicist