ParaTools

Name

ParaTools

Legal name

ParaTools, Inc.

Website

https://paratools.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HPC Performance Analysis Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Other Computer Related Services (541519), Computer Training (611420)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

AI/HPC Converged Systems (Hybrid Training/Simulation) (HDACAOAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Modeling, Simulation, Digital Twins & Mission Rehearsal Systems (IMABAOAL)

Keywords

• Performance profiling tools
• High performance computing
• Parallel code analysis
• Performance engineering software
• HPC consulting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Eugene

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing and Support Contracts: Annual support contracts for TAU Performance System at $225,000/year including bug fixes, updates, user support by phone/Skype/email, weekend support, and custom configurations.
2. Training Workshops: Two-day on-site workshops on TAU and related performance evaluation tools (Score-P, PAPI, Vampir Pro, OTF2) at fixed price of $14,995 including travel expenses.
3. Custom Extensions and Development: Firm fixed price options for custom extensions to TAU Performance System: $50,000 for new runtime layer support, $150,000 for specific Chapel language support, $350,000 for complete Chapel runtime system instrumentation.
4. Consulting Services: Technical consultation on TAU Performance System and PARATOOLS ThreadSpotter at $324.69/hour labor rate for Technical Lead category.
5. Vampir Reseller: Authorized US reseller of Vampir trace visualizer. Revenue from software license sales: Vampir Light $1,920, Vampir Standard $9,400 (single person) or $31,200 (site), Vampir Professional $78,000 (site), plus annual maintenance.
6. Kppa Software Distribution: Kppa software available as RPM, DEB packages and tarballs for multiple Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, openSUSE.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ParaTools develops, licenses, and supports the TAU Performance System—a portable profiling and tracing toolkit for parallel programs written in Fortran, C, C++, Java, Python, and UPC—and offers complementary performance engineering software (TAU Commander, Kppa, ParaTools ThreadSpotter, HPC Linux, IQB, ParaTools Pro for E4S) along with HPC consulting, training, and custom development services for supercomputing centers, government research labs, and defense organizations.

Product overview

ParaTools offers a suite of high-performance computing tools centered around the TAU Performance System, which serves as the core technology platform. The portfolio includes TAU Commander (a performance engineering workflow manager), ParaTools Pro for E4S (hardened Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack for cloud deployment), ThreadSpotter (thread analysis), Kppa (chemical kinetic simulation code generator), HPC Linux, IQB, and resold Vampir trace visualization tools. The company also provides consulting services including Performance Optimization, Legacy Code Modernization, Linux Migration and Windows Azure, and Performance Data Hosting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TAU Commander: A portable and scalable performance analysis toolkit for C, C++, Java, Python, Fortran, and others, serving as a performance engineering workflow manager.
• ParaTools Pro for E4S
• ParaTools ThreadSpotter
• The TAU Performance System
• Kppa
• HPC Linux
• IQB
• Vampir

Products and services

• TAU Performance System Portable profiling and tracing toolkit for performance analysis of parallel programs written in Fortran, C, C++, Java, Python, and UPC. Gathers performance information through instrumentation of functions, methods, basic blocks, and statements across MPI, OpenMP, pthread, GPU, Intel Xeon Phi, and PGAS (UPC, SHMEM) execution, and scales to hundreds of thousands of cores on the world's largest supercomputers.
• TAU Commander Performance engineering workflow manager from ParaTools providing a simple, intuitive, and systematic user interface that guides users through TAU-based performance engineering workflows with constructive feedback on errors, dramatically improving the usability of the underlying TAU Performance System for C, C++, Java, Python, and Fortran applications.
• ParaTools Pro for E4S ParaTools's commercial distribution of the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) hardened for commercial clouds, providing a platform for developing and deploying HPC and AI/ML applications with uniform multi-cloud provider access.
• ParaTools ThreadSpotter Thread-level performance analysis and optimization tool for identifying and resolving threading performance issues in parallel applications, sold alongside consulting engagements at ParaTools's stated hourly Technical Lead rate.
• Kppa Software tool that automatically generates C or Fortran90 code to simulate chemical kinetic systems, optimized for GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, or CPUs, with applications in atmospheric simulation, chemical reactor modeling, and microorganism growth modeling. Distributed as RPM, DEB packages, and tarballs for Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, and openSUSE.
• HPC Linux HPC Linux distribution and solutions for high performance computing environments, including Azure Data Science Core integration for cloud-based HPC workloads.
• IQB Performance analysis tool marketed under the federally registered IQB trademark owned by ParaTools, Inc.
• Vampir Trace visualizer providing analysis framework for displaying program behavior at any level of detail, available in Light ($1,920), Standard ($9,400 single person / $31,200 site), and Professional ($78,000 site) editions with annual maintenance, distributed in the United States by ParaTools as authorized reseller.
• Performance Optimization Consulting Personalized consulting engagement from ParaTools engineers that evaluates an organization's high-performance application performance characteristics across parallel infrastructure, grid/node configuration, kernel operations, and scheduling, and recommends optimizations.
• Legacy Code Modernization Consulting service offering personalized evaluation and modernization of legacy high-performance applications across parallel infrastructure, grid/node configuration, kernel operations, and scheduling applications.
• TAU Training Workshops Two-day on-site workshop delivered by ParaTools engineers on TAU Performance System and related performance evaluation tools (Score-P, PAPI, Vampir Pro, OTF2), including all travel expenses and handouts, priced at $14,995 flat fee.
• Linux Migration and Windows Azure Consulting service supporting migration of HPC workloads between Linux and Windows Azure cloud environments, including HPC Scheduler setup, WRF and POP migrations to Azure, and Azure Data Science Core integration.
• Performance Data Hosting Hosted service for performance data collected from HPC application profiling and tracing runs, allowing customers to store and analyze TAU-generated performance data without operating their own infrastructure.

Quantifiable outcome

• Runtime reduction from 528 hours to 70 hours for IRMHD INCITE code
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration12 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Adaptive ComputingcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 November 2022Partnership to supply uniform multi-cloud provider access to launch HPC workflows with Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) via Adaptive Computing's HPC Cloud On-Demand Data Center (ODDC) web interface using custom images. Commercial images available on all cloud platforms via ODDC web interface.
• Northrop Grumman Cync ProgramminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 June 2017Participant in bwtech@UMBC Cyber Incubator and Northrop Grumman Cync program. Conducted Lunch and Learn sessions for Northrop Grumman on high-performance software analysis, optimization, and tools.
• Engility, Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2016Partnership with Engility, Inc. and NASA Langley Research Center to present SC'16 poster on performance improvements in FUN3D realized via TAU Commander. Engility is a services company providing technical solutions to federal agencies.
• NASA Langley Research CentercoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2016Research partnership for performance engineering of FUN3D computational fluid dynamics code. NASA/LaRC hosted presentation and provided access to Cray XC30 at Navy DSRC for testing.
• TU DresdencoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorVampir developed by TU Dresden. ParaTools is authorized reseller of Vampir trace visualizer in the United States.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Arm Forge (Allinea MAP / DDT): Arm's HPC tools division (acquired Allinea in 2017) provides MAP profiling and DDT debugging for parallel applications at supercomputing scale. Directly competitive to TAU Performance System in HPC performance analysis and debugging on the same buyer (HPC centers and government research labs).
• Score-P (TU Dresden / Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf): Open-source performance measurement toolchain for parallel applications, developed by TU Dresden and partners. Notably, TAU itself uses Score-P internally for OTF2 trace generation; Score-P directly competes with TAU in HPC profiling on identical customer sites.
• Rogue Wave Software (Perforce): Provides HPC developer tools including TotalView debugger and ThreadSpotter-adjacent tooling. Targets the same enterprise and government HPC customers seeking performance and debugging solutions.
• Kitware: Open-source HPC and scientific computing software provider offering visualization and performance analysis tools (ParaView, VTK-m). Comparable to ParaTools in serving government research labs and HPC centers with performance engineering expertise.
• Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG): Provides HPC numerical libraries, consulting, and performance optimization services to scientific and engineering customers. Overlaps directly with ParaTools' HPC consulting and custom development practice targeting similar government and research customers.

Broad incumbents

• Intel (VTune Profiler / oneAPI): VTune Profiler within Intel's oneAPI toolkit is a broadly adopted HPC performance analysis tool bundled with Intel compilers and architectures. Competes with TAU but is positioned as part of a wider hardware-software stack rather than a specialized parallel-program profiling tool.
• NVIDIA Nsight Systems / Compute: NVIDIA's profiler and debugger suite for GPU-accelerated and HPC workloads. Overlaps with TAU's GPU and CUDA profiling capabilities but bundled with the broader NVIDIA GPU hardware/platform stack.
• HPE / Cray (HPC Software Stack): HPE Cray provides supercomputer systems and a co-developed HPC software stack including performance tools. Overlaps with ParaTools' HPC tooling footprint but is part of a much broader hardware-vendor portfolio.

Others

• Adaptive Computing: HPC workload and cloud orchestration provider (On-Demand Data Center) that ParaTools partners with to deliver E4S on commercial clouds. Comparable in cloud HPC delivery rather than direct tooling competition.

Emerging players

• Open|SpeedShop: Open-source, community-maintained HPC performance analysis tool originally developed at Krell Institute with national-lab partnerships. An emerging/free alternative that overlaps with TAU's profiling scope and serves similar HPC user communities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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