Research “Market Overview of Multi-Core Application Development Tools” by the German Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering

At the end of October 2010, the German Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) released its study "Market survey of tools for multicore software development". The IAO is an organization located in Stuttgart (Germany) that studies the issues of technology management.

In a detailed report, a report on 259 pages contains all the tools that can be useful in developing multi-core solutions. The classifications of tools are given, the tasks to be solved are indicated. The study is of undoubted interest for those who are either already developing or planning to develop applications for several cores.

What is all this remarkable about?
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First, of course, the products of Intel in this study are presented in full.

Well, and secondly, from Russia only one team got into this document. This is the command that makes the PVS-Studio product with its set of rules for diagnosing errors in the OpenMP code. Let us rejoice for the Russian team, but for now I will list the tools that participated in the study:

• Acumem ThreadSpotter, Acumem
• Akka, Scalable Solutions AB
• Allinea DDT, Allinea Software
• Pervasive DataRush, Pervasive Software
• Enterprise Architect, SparxSystems Central Europe
• GPI, Fraunhofer ITWM
• IESE Simulink partitioner, Fraunhofer IESE
• IntelR Ct Technology, Intel Corporation
• JProfiler, ej-technologies GmbH
• Offload: Community Edition, Codeplay Software Ltd
• PGI Suite, The Portland Group
• Poly-Platform, PolyCore Software
• Prism, CriticalBlue
• PVS-Studio, Program Verification Systems Co. Ltd ( yo-ho! )
• SAMG, Fraunhofer SCAI
• Scalasca, Forschungszentrum Julich
• Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft
• Zoom, RotateRight LLC

The document itself is in English, but easy to read. Since the file is not available until the form is completed, I will provide a brief summary:

1. Introduction.
2. Multicore Software Engineering.
3. Multicore Software Development Tools.
4. Market Study.
5. Tools.
6. The MWare Project (own project of the authors of the study).
7. Vendor View (tool developers promotional material).

Download the study after filling out a short questionnaire.