Future Technologies Colloquium Series


Scalable Performance Analysis of Large-Scale Parallel Applications


Brian Wylie
John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
October 12, 2006
10:00 AM

ORNL 5100-Auditorium

Host: Phil Roth (rothpc@ornl.gov)


ABSTRACT:

The SCALASCA project is developing a new generation of tools for scalable performance analysis of large-scale parallel applications, building on extensive experience gained with the KOJAK toolset developed by Forschungszentrum Juelich and the University of Tennessee. �First steps have extended KOJAK to significantly improve the scalability of trace capture and analysis of thousands of MPI processes, by avoiding trace re-writing and exploiting a replay-based parallel analysis. �As demonstrated with Top-10 IBM Blue Gene/L and Cray XT3 systems, previously impractical performance analysis has now been enabled.


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