TotalView® for HPC 2016.05 includes the following primary new or updated features. For a complete change history for TotalView, MemoryScape, and ReplayEngine, see the document “TotalView_for_HPC_Change_Log.pdf” in the PDF directory of your installation, or follow the link “TotalView New Features and Change Log” on the TotalView documentation page on the web site.

TotalView for HPC 2016.05 adds support for loading and debugging application runtime sessions recorded with Rogue Wave’s new Replicator product. Replicator records a Linux program while it’s executing to produce a single Replay recording file containing a detailed recording of that program’s execution history. You can then provide this Replay file to TotalView for HPC and use all the power of TotalView’s reverse debugging technology to re-run and move back and forth in the program’s execution history to debug and understand how the program ran.

The key feature of Replicator is that it can record without involving TotalView for HPC. This independent execution makes it easy to debug a customer’s code, since the Replay recording file is an exact replica of the issues that created the crash or bug. It can also be an important tool for testing in-house applications in which the testing team provides the engineers a recording of the problem that can be played back.