Tools for High Performance Computing 2012

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Debugging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Debugging at Scale with Allinea DDT

      • David Lecomber, Patrick Wohlschlegel

      Pages 3-12

   3. Task Debugging with TEMANEJO

      • Steffen Brinkmann, José Gracia, Christoph Niethammer

      Pages 13-21

3. Automatic Error Detection

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. MPI Runtime Error Detection with MUST: Advanced Error Reports

      • Joachim Protze, Tobias Hilbrich, Bronis R. de Supinski, Martin Schulz, Matthias S. Müller, Wolfgang E. Nagel

      Pages 25-38

   3. Advanced Memory Checking for MPI Parallel Applications Using MemPin

      • Shiqing Fan, Rainer Keller, Michael Resch

      Pages 39-53

4. Performance Analysis and Optimization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Generic Support for Remote Memory Access Operations in Score-P and OTF2

      • Andreas Knüpfer, Robert Dietrich, Jens Doleschal, Markus Geimer, Marc-André Hermanns, Christian Rössel et al.

      Pages 57-74

   3. Cache-Related Performance Analysis Using Rogue Wave Software’s ThreadSpotter

      • Royd Lüdtke, Chris Gottbrath

      Pages 75-93

   4. Custom Hot Spot Analysis of HPC Software with the Vampir Performance Tool Suite

      • Holger Brunst, Matthias Weber

      Pages 95-114

   5. Extending Scalasca’s Analysis Features

      • Daniel Lorenz, David Böhme, Bernd Mohr, Alexandre Strube, Zoltán Szebenyi

      Pages 115-126

   6. The HOPSA Workflow and Tools

      • Bernd Mohr, Vladimir Voevodin, Judit Giménez, Erik Hagersten, Andreas Knüpfer, Dmitry A. Nikitenko et al.

      Pages 127-146

5. Performance Data Visualization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Visualizing More Performance Data Than What Fits on Your Screen

      • Lucas M. Schnorr, Arnaud Legrand

      Pages 149-162

The latest advances in the High Performance Computing hardware have significantly raised the level of available compute performance. At the same time, the growing hardware capabilities of modern supercomputing architectures have caused an increasing complexity of the parallel application development. Despite numerous efforts to improve and simplify parallel programming, there is still a lot of manual debugging and  tuning work required. This process  is supported by special software tools, facilitating debugging, performance analysis, and optimization and thus  making a major contribution to the development of  robust and efficient parallel software. This book introduces a selection of the tools, which were presented and discussed at the 6th International Parallel Tools Workshop, held in Stuttgart, Germany, 25-26 September 2012. ​

• Debugging
• Performance analysis
• Software optimization
• Supercomputing
• Tools for parallel applications

• Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum, Stuttgart (HLRS), Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Alexey Cheptsov, Steffen Brinkmann, José Gracia, Michael M. Resch

• Zentrum für Informationsdienste, und Hochleistungsrechnen (ZIH), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

  Wolfgang E. Nagel

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