IMPuLSE: integrated monitoring and profiling for large-scale environments

  • Authors:
  • Patrick G. Bridges;Arthur B. MacCabe

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico;The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

  • Venue:
  • LCR '04 Proceedings of the 7th workshop on Workshop on languages, compilers, and run-time support for scalable systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A lack of efficient system software is an increasing impediment to deploying large-scale parallel and distributed systems. Systemically addressing operating system-induced performance anomalies requires accurate, low-overhead, whole-system monitoring, something that is currently unavailable in large tightly-coupled systems. In this paper, we present the design of IMPuLSE---Integrated Monitoring and Profiling for Large-Scale Environments---a system we are developing to meet this need. IMPuLSE's innovative message-centric profiling approach trades off of centralized global knowledge for low overhead, while retaining relatively fine-grained information about important cross-host performance interactions. The goal of this approach is to enable both large-scale system software adaptation and continuous system performance auditing.