Trenza, Inc

What Trenza, Inc does

Trenza, Inc. (operating as Trenza Synergy) is a privately held, Los Alamos, New Mexico–based vendor of computational performance engineering tools and services for high performance computing (HPC) environments. The company was incorporated in 2022 by David Montoya, formerly of Los Alamos National Laboratory and a software deployment lead on the DOE Exascale Computing Project, together with co-founders Jim Galarowicz, Donald Maghrak, Kristina Frye, and Mahesh Rajan—all veterans of Cray, SGI, Sandia National Laboratories, and/or The Krell Institute. Its SurveyPerf suite comprises three interconnected offerings: Survey™, a proprietary lightweight Linux-based metrics collector targeting ~1% overhead across sequential, MPI, OpenMP, and hybrid codes on Intel, AMD, ARM, Intel Phi, Power PC, and GPU systems; Performance Studies, an expert consulting service that leverages Survey data for architecture assessments, build/run optimization, and continuous-integration support; and Open|SpeedShop (O|SS), an LGPL-licensed open-source deep performance analysis tool providing sampling, call-path profiling, hardware counters, I/O tracing, MPI/Pthread/OpenMP instrumentation, and memory analysis.

The product architecture is positioned to span the metrics-to-insight workflow: Survey handles broad, low-overhead collection and emits CSV/JSON outputs; Performance Studies translates raw metrics into procurement and architecture recommendations; and Open|SpeedShop delivers deep profiling for users who need detailed call-path and counter-level analysis. Notable integrations include GitLab CI (continuous performance measurement) and external data collectors such as NVIDIA-smi.

Commercially, Trenza monetizes through per-node subscription licensing for Survey (multi-year, quote-based), Performance Studies engagements (short-term to long-term contracts), and Open|SpeedShop support contracts (installation, training, result analysis). The go-to-market is sales-led and consultative, with direct enterprise engagement via scheduled calls, request-for-information emails, and product demos/free trials for Survey. The named customer base is concentrated in U.S. government HPC: DOE NNSA laboratories (notably Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories) via development contracts and performance engineering engagements. There is no public disclosure of external institutional investors, venture funding, or revenue figures, and headcount is reported at 1-10 employees.

Name

Trenza, Inc

Legal name

Trenza Inc.

Website

https://trenzasynergy.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Trenza Synergy is a Los Alamos-based vendor of HPC performance engineering tools for scientific computing, offering the proprietary Survey™ lightweight metrics collector, expert Performance Studies consulting, and the open-source Open|SpeedShop profiler to government laboratories and HPC practitioners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HPC Performance Engineering Tools

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

HPC System Software & Resource Management (Schedulers, MPI, OS Images) (HDACAOAH)

Keywords

• HPC performance engineering
• Application performance analysis
• Performance metrics collection
• HPC profiling software
• Scientific computing optimization

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Alamos

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Flexible Subscription Model: The company uses a flexible subscription model that provides substantial value for integration troubleshooting and assistance for system and development teams. This balances open source offerings with per-node licensed software products.
2. Professional Services - Performance Studies: Performance study services ranging from short-term concerted efforts to long-term study contracts serving as components to deployment or integration teams. Includes comparative studies and system impact assessments.
3. Open|SpeedShop Support Contracts: Support contracts provided for installation, training, and result analysis for Open|SpeedShop users.
4. Product Demos and Free Trials: Free trials and product demos of Survey tool available by contacting the company directly.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Trenza Synergy develops and sells the SurveyPerf suite of HPC computational performance engineering tools and services. The offering comprises the proprietary Survey™ Framework (a lightweight Linux tool for high-level performance metrics collection targeting sequential, MPI, OpenMP, and hybrid codes on single-node and large-scale platforms, with ~1% overhead), the LGPL-licensed Open|SpeedShop (O|SS) open source deep performance analysis tool, and Performance Studies expert consulting services for application and machine performance assessment across diverse architectures.

Product overview

Trenza, Inc offers SurveyPerf, a suite of computational performance engineering tools and services for HPC application optimization. The portfolio consists of three interconnected offerings: the Survey™ Framework as the core lightweight metrics collector, Performance Studies as expert consulting services that leverage the Survey framework for deeper analysis and architecture assessment, and Open|SpeedShop (O|SS) as an open-source deep-dive performance analysis tool for detailed application profiling. Survey serves as the entry point providing broad metric collection with low overhead, while Performance Studies and O|SS address more in-depth analysis needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Survey™: A new generation, high-level, light-weight tool for HPC application performance metric collection designed to work on sequential, MPI, OpenMP, and hybrid codes on both single node and large-scale platforms.
• Open|SpeedShop (O|SS)

Products and services

• Survey™ Framework A lightweight, multi-platform Linux tool for high-level HPC application performance metric collection. Survey targets sequential, MPI, OpenMP, and hybrid codes on single node and large-scale platforms, gathering performance metrics with approximately 1% overhead and producing CSV and JSON output files for ingestion into analysis frameworks. Designed for application developers, system managers, and user analysts running scientific applications.
• Performance Studies Expert performance engineering consulting services that assess application performance under differing architectures, software environments, and run environments. Services include build/run option analysis, resource optimization across nodes and networks, and continuous integration support. Engagements range from short-term concerted efforts to long-term study contracts.
• Open|SpeedShop (O|SS) An open source multi-platform performance analysis tool for HPC applications. O|SS provides deep-level analysis including program counter sampling, call path profiling, hardware counter access, I/O tracing, MPI function call tracing, memory analysis, POSIX thread tracing, and OpenMP analysis. Supports Intel, AMD, ARM, Intel Phi, Power PC, Power 8/9, and GPU-based systems including Cray and IBM Blue Gene platforms.

Quantifiable outcome

• Lightweight performance collection with target 1% overhead
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• DOE NNSA LaboratoriescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDevelopment contracts with DOE NNSA laboratories for Survey framework hardening and enhancement. The original concept for Survey framework was developed while working on Open|SpeedShop for DOE NNSA laboratories. Close collaboration provides insight for product roadmap development.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• AMD uProf / CodeXL: AMD's uProf performance analysis tool targets AMD CPU and accelerator platforms in HPC environments, competing with Trenza for the same application-developer and system-manager use cases.
• Intel VTune Profiler / Advisor: Intel's VTune and Advisor profilers serve the same HPC and scientific-application developers that Survey targets, bundled with Intel oneAPI and Xeon/Phi platforms.
• NVIDIA Nsight Systems / Nsight Compute: NVIDIA's bundled HPC profilers cover similar metrics to Survey/Open|SpeedShop for GPU-accelerated systems and ship free with NVIDIA hardware, creating direct competition in Trenza's core HPC buyer segment.
• HPE (Cray) HPC Software Stack: HPE's Cray HPC systems ship with a portfolio of performance and programming tools and have deep DOE NNSA relationships, making Cray both a partner and competitor for HPC performance engineering services.

Others

• Linaro: Linaro collaborates with Arm, HPC vendors, and national labs on toolchains, compilers, and HPC performance optimizations, making it an adjacent ecosystem participant in the same HPC tooling space Trenza serves.

Emerging players

• Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG): NAG provides HPC numerical libraries and consulting services to scientific and engineering customers, overlapping with Trenza's Performance Studies practice in HPC application optimization.

Direct peers

• Score-P / Vampir / Scalasca (Jülich Supercomputing Centre): Open-source HPC performance analysis tools from Germany's Jülich centre directly overlap with Open|SpeedShop's profiling, tracing, and memory-analysis capabilities for the same HPC research buyer.
• Rogue Wave Software (TotalView, now Perforce): Rogue Wave's HPC debugging and profiling tools (TotalView, CodeDynamics) target the same HPC developer and system-manager personas and overlap with Trenza's Open|SpeedShop and Survey products.
• Arm Forge (Allinea MAP/DDT): Arm's HPC debugger and performance profiler suite is the closest commercial analog to Open|SpeedShop, offering MPI/OpenMP-aware profiling, memory analysis, and I/O tracing for the same HPC developer and user-analyst buyer Trenza targets.
• ParaTools (TAU Performance Tool): ParaTools develops the TAU profiler and HPC performance engineering services, directly competing with Trenza's Open|SpeedShop and Performance Studies offerings for national-lab and academic HPC customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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