Debugging and Performance Tuning for Parallel Computing Systems
Systems
1. Edition July 1996
448 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
For several years, it has been economically and technically
feasible to build parallel systems that scale from tens to hundreds
of processors. By necessity tools embody knowledge of the execution
environment, identifying performance bottlenecks or logical program
errors in terms of application code constructs and their
interaction with the execution environment. Experience comes with
time, as tool developers understand the common programming idioms,
the interactions of application code and the underlying hardware
and software, and the user interfaces best suited for relating
these interactions in intuitive ways. Simply put developing good
tools takes time, experience, and substantial effort.
This book contains papers and working group summaries from
discussions on software tools for parallel computer systems that
explore the current situation, outline research issues, and
technology transition remedies. Developers of both debugging and
performance analysis tools and application developers and vendors
discuss the technical and sociological problems facing the field.
The goal of this book is to maximize the return from shared
development so that the reader can learn from others' needs and
frustrations in building and using tools on parallel systems. It
covers three major research themes: tools for task and data
parallel languages, techniques for real-time adaptive system
control, and optimization of heterogeneous metacomputing
applications.
Checkpoint.
2. Tools: A Research Point of View.
Integrating Compilation and Performance Analysis for Data-Parallel
Programs (Vikram S. Adve).
Integrating A Debugger and Performance Tool for Steering (Barton P.
Miller).
Visualization, Debugging, and Performance in PVM (G.A.
Geist).
Program Analysis and Tuning Tools for a Parallel Object Oriented
Language: An Experiment with the TAU System (Dennis Gannon).
Race Detection -
Ten Years Later (C.E. McDowell).
Debugging and Performance Analysis Tools (Joan M. Francioni).
3. Tools: A Vendor Point of View.
A Scalable Debugger for Massively Parallel Message-Passing Programs
(Rich Title).
A Building Block Approach to Parallel Tool Construction (Don
Breazeal).
Visualizing Performance on Parallel Supercomputers (Marty
Itzkowitz).
Multiple View of Parallel Application Execution (Ming C.
Hao).
A Performance Tool for The CRAY T3D (Douglas M. Pase).
4. Tools: An Applications Point of View.
Issues of Running Codes on Very Large Parallel Processing Systems
(Don Heller).
Opportunities and Tools for Highly Interactive Distributed and
Parallel Computing (Karsten Schwan).
Methodologies for Developing Scientific Applications on the CRAY
T3D (Nicholas A. Nystrom).
Tuning I/O Performance on the Paragon: Fun with Pablo and Norma
(Carl Winstead).
Prospects of Solving Grand Challenge Problems (Rajan Gupta).
Portability and Performance Problems on Massively Parallel
Supercomputers (David M. Beazley).
5. Updates and Working-Group Summaries.
Collaborative Efforts to Develop User-Oriented Parallel Tools
(Cherri M. Pancake).
High-Performance Fortran Forum Status Report (Mary Zosel).
Summary of Working Group on Integrated Environments Vs. Toolkit
(Diane T. Rover).
Working Group: Tools for Workstation Clusters (Robert Dilly).
