Portable and architecture independent parallel performance tuning using a call-graph profiling tool

J.M.D. Hill; S.A. Jarvis; C.J. Siniolakis; V.P. Vasilev

doi:10.1109/EMPDP.1998.647211

Portable and architecture independent parallel performance tuning using a call-graph profiling tool

J.M.D. Hill, S.A. Jarvis, C.J. Siniolakis, V.P. Vasilev

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Abstract

The paper describes a post mortem call graph profiling tool that analyses trace information generated during the execution of BSPlib programs. The purpose of the tool is to expose imbalance in either computation or communication, and to highlight portions of code that are amenable to improvement. Unlike other profiling tools, the profile information guides optimisation in an architecture independent way. From an ease of use perspective, the amount of information displayed when visualising a profile for a parallel program is no more complex than that of a sequential program.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Sixth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing - PDP '98 -
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	286-294
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	0-8186-8332-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EMPDP.1998.647211
Publication status	Published - 23 Jan 1998
Event	Proceedings of the Sixth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing - PDP '98 - - Madrid, Spain Duration: 23 Jan 1998 → 23 Jan 1998

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Conference	Proceedings of the Sixth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing - PDP '98 -
Period	23/01/98 → 23/01/98

Keywords

Cost function
Computer architecture
Parallel programming
Laboratories
Buildings
Information analysis
Visualization
Time measurement
Libraries
Parallel languages

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Hill, JMD, Jarvis, SA, Siniolakis, CJ & Vasilev, VP 1998, Portable and architecture independent parallel performance tuning using a call-graph profiling tool. in Proceedings of the Sixth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing - PDP '98 -., 647211, IEEE, pp. 286-294, Proceedings of the Sixth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing - PDP '98 -, 23/01/98. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMPDP.1998.647211

Portable and architecture independent parallel performance tuning using a call-graph profiling tool. / Hill, J.M.D.; Jarvis, S.A.; Siniolakis, C.J. et al.
Proceedings of the Sixth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing - PDP '98 -. IEEE, 1998. p. 286-294 647211.

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Portable and architecture independent parallel performance tuning using a call-graph profiling tool

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