Visualizing Performance Debugging
Computer
Quartz: a tool for tuning parallel program performance
SIGMETRICS '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A static performance estimator to guide data partitioning decisions
PPOPP '91 Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Animating work and time for debugging parallel programs foundation and experience
PADD '91 Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/ONR workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
Performance debugging shared memory multiprocessor programs with MTOOL
Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
MemSpy: analyzing memory system bottlenecks in programs
SIGMETRICS '92/PERFORMANCE '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Dynamic control of performance monitoring on large scale parallel systems
ICS '93 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Supercomputing
Performance prediction of parallel processing systems: the PAMELA methodology
ICS '93 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Supercomputing
The Wisconsin Wind Tunnel: virtual prototyping of parallel computers
SIGMETRICS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Performance assertion checking
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
PADD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/ONR workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
PVM: Parallel virtual machine: a users' guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing
PVM: Parallel virtual machine: a users' guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing
Critical Path Profiling of Message Passing and Shared-Memory Programs
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
Communications of the ACM
Parallel performance prediction using lost cycles analysis
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Visualizing the Performance of Parallel Programs
IEEE Software
JEWEL: Design and Implementation of a Distributed Measurement System
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Modeling the Communication Performance of the IBM SP2
IPPS '96 Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium
Falcon: on-line monitoring and steering of large-scale parallel programs
FRONTIERS '95 Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation (Frontiers'95)
PerWiz: a what-if prediction tool for tuning message passing programs
VECPAR'04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on High Performance Computing for Computational Science
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
We introduce a new performance metric, called Load Balancing Factor (LBF), to assist programmers with evaluating different tuning alternatives. The LBF metric differs from traditional performance metrics since it is intended to measure the performance implications of a specific tuning alternative rather than quantifying where time is spent in the current version of the program. A second unique aspect of the metric is that it provides guidance about moving work within a distributed or parallel program rather than reducing it. A variation of the LBF metric can also be used to predict the performance impact of changing the underlying network. The LBF metric is computed incrementally and online during the execution of the program to be tuned. We also present a case study that shows that our metric can accurately predict the actual performance gains for a test suite of six programs.