New in TotalView® for HPC 2019
TotalView® for HPC 2019 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 website.
The 2019 release mainly includes bug fixes, stability improvements, and operating and compiler updates.
Stability and Performance Enhancements
Numerous CUDA enhancements have been added in this release to improve performance and stability when debugging multi-GPUs in a cluster environment and also when debugging host and GPU-managed memory variables.
The reverse debugging ReplayEngine has also been updated, resolving a warning on Intel Skylake architectures and a memory issue on systems using the InfiniBand interconnect.
Numerous user-reported bugs have also been fixed in this release.
Platform Updates
Operating system additions include support for Mac OS Mojave (10.14), Fedora 28 and 29, and Ubuntu 18.04. TotalView has also been validated against GCC 8.
FlexNet Embedded License Server Specification File
Linux ARM64 and Linux PowerLE users can now use a special license server specification file to instruct TotalView which FlexNet Embedded (FNE) license server it should use, especially useful when working in cluster environments. To set up this special FNE license server specification file, see License Setup: Linux PowerLE & ARM64 in the TotalView for HPC Installation Guide.