1. Allen D. Malony, Sameer Shende
PERC Ideas
Allen D. Malony, Sameer Shende
Department of Computer and Information Science
Performance Research Laboratory
University of Oregon

2. TAU Performance System Architecture
event
selection

3. TAU Performance System Architecture

4. Program Database Toolkit (PDT)
Application
/ Library
C / C++
parser
Fortran parser
F77/90/95
Program
documentation
PDBhtml
Application
component glue IL IL
SILOON
C / C++
IL analyzer
Fortran
IL analyzer
C++ / F90/95
interoperability
CHASM
Program
Database
Files
Automatic source
instrumentation
DUCTAPE
TAU_instr

5. ParaProf – Callpath Highlighting (Flash)
MODULEHYDRO_1D:HYDRO_1D

6. ParaProf – 3D Full Profile (Miranda)
16k processors

7. ParaProf – 3D Scatterplot (Miranda)
Each point is a “thread” of execution
A total of four metrics shown in relation
ParaVis 3D profile visualization library
JOGL

8. Performance Data Management Framework

9. PerfExplorer (K. Huck, Ph.D. student, UO)
Performance knowledge discovery framework
Use the existing TAU infrastructure
TAU instrumentation data, PerfDMF
Client-server based system architecture
Data mining analysis applied to parallel performance data
comparative, clustering, correlation, dimension reduction, ...
Technology integration
Relational DatabaseManagement Systems (RDBMS)
Java API and toolkit
R-project / Omegahat statistical analysis
WEKA data mining package
Web-based client

10. PerfExplorer Architecture

11. Automated Parallel Performance Diagnosis (L. Li)
Based on earlier performance diagnosis project, Poirot

12. TAU Performance Regression (PerfRegress)
Prototype developed by Alan Morris for Uintah
Re-implement using PerfDMF

13. Integrated Performance Evaluation Environment

14. Empirical-Based Performance Optimization
Experiment Schemas
Experiment
Trials
management
Process
characterization
Performance Tuning
Performance
Diagnosis
Experimentation
Observation
hypotheses
properties ?
observability
requirements