Specification Techniques for Automatic Performance Analysis Tools

  • Authors:
  • Michael Gerndt;Hans-Georg Eßer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS '00 Proceedings of the 15 IPDPS 2000 Workshops on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Performance analysis of parallel programs is a time-consuming task and requires a lot of experience. It is the goal of the KOJAK project at the Researc hCentre Juelich to develop an automatic performance analysis environment. A key requirement for the success of this new environment is its easy in tegration with already existing tools on the target platform. The design should lead to tools that can be easily retargeted to different parallel machines based on specification documents. This article outlines the features of the APART Specification Language designed for that purpose and demonstrates its applicability in the context of the KOJAK Cost Analyzer, a first prototype tool of KOJAK.