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Adding more processors to
speed up a FORTRAN application is a cost effective way to improve
performance. The problem is:
WHETHER IT WILL
ACTUALLY IMPROVE PERFORMANCE?
The answer to this question
can be very costly in terms of time and money and is perhaps the main
reason why more applications have not benefited from parallel
computation.
By using BERT 77, you can
automatically and efficiently parallelize FORTRAN applications sitting
at your workstation using a "point and click" interface. In
a matter of hours you can answer questions like:
- Is my application
concurrent*?
- How much performance
increase can I get from running my application on a cluster of
workstations? a shared memory machine?
- If I make my
application concurrent*, how much faster will it really go?
- What is the effect of
adding more processors?
* one of the biggest MISTAKES
people make when using parallel computers is to make everything that
is concurrent (that which can be done at the same time) parallel (that
which should be done at the same time)
BERT 77 will eliminate weeks
or months of trial and error guessing. You will learn how well the
concurrency in your program maps on to a parallel computing
environment of choice and be able to make "pay-off"
decisions quickly (i.e. "How much faster will my application go
if I parallelize this loop?")
Obtaining BERT 77
We are in the process creating new versions and pricing model. We believe these
changes will allow easier evaluations of BERT 77. Please Contact
Basement Supercomputing with any questions.
The basic BERT 77 Lite
version is still available FREE from Basement Supercomputing. This version will
analyze up to 8000 lines of FORTRAN 77 source code.
Please see the download page for information on how to obtain BERT 77 Lite.
Information on our new pricing model and prices can be found on this document.
Please see the following for more information:
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