Intel acquiring Pallas

[Joachim Worringen]

Vann H. Walke:
> Pallas's main HPC product is Vampir/Vampirtrace.  These are performance
> analysis tools.  As such they would only be peripherally useful for
> compiler design (perhaps to measure the effects of certain changes).
> Even for this purpose, Vampir/Vampirtrace doesn't provide the amount of
> detail that Intel's own V-Tune product does.  

I agree with Vann. I assume they just want to extend V-Tune upwards, and get a 
fully integrated product. And maybe some additional knowledge on MPI (Pallas 
implemented/maintains the MPI for Fujitsu machines and maybe others). I 
wonder if Pallas will continue to sell PGI compilers (which are optimized for 
AMD/Opteron...).

BTW, Intel also owns 25% of Scali. And Etnus, which produce TotalView, which 
Pallas sells, belongs to Dolphin, which in turn make a lot of business with 
Scali. Whatever that means... but it's a small world.

 Joachim

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