TY - GEN
T1 - From trace generation to visualization
T2 - 2000 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, SC 2000
AU - Wu, C. Eric
AU - Bolmarcich, Anthony
AU - Snir, Marc
AU - Wootton, David
AU - Parpia, Farid
AU - Chan, Anthony
AU - Lusk, Ewing
AU - Gropp, William
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2000 IEEE.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - In this paper we describe a trace analysis framework, from trace generation to visualization. It includes a unified tracing facility on IBM® SPTMsystems, a self-defining interval file format, an API for framework extensions, utilities for merging and statistics generation, and a visualization tool with preview and multiple time-space diagrams. The trace environment is extremely scalable, and combines MPI events with system activities in the same set of trace files, one for each SMP node. Since the amount of trace data may be very large, utilities are developed to convert and merge individual trace files into a self-defining interval trace file with multiple frame directories. The interval format allows the development of multiple time-space diagrams, such as thread-activity view, processor-activity view, etc., from the same interval file. A visualization tool, Jumpshot, is modified to visualize these views. A statistics utility is developed using the API, along with its graphics viewer.
AB - In this paper we describe a trace analysis framework, from trace generation to visualization. It includes a unified tracing facility on IBM® SPTMsystems, a self-defining interval file format, an API for framework extensions, utilities for merging and statistics generation, and a visualization tool with preview and multiple time-space diagrams. The trace environment is extremely scalable, and combines MPI events with system activities in the same set of trace files, one for each SMP node. Since the amount of trace data may be very large, utilities are developed to convert and merge individual trace files into a self-defining interval trace file with multiple frame directories. The interval format allows the development of multiple time-space diagrams, such as thread-activity view, processor-activity view, etc., from the same interval file. A visualization tool, Jumpshot, is modified to visualize these views. A statistics utility is developed using the API, along with its graphics viewer.
KW - Distributed parallel systems
KW - Interval file format
KW - Multiple time-space diagrams
KW - SMP clusters
KW - Trace generation
KW - Trace visualization
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U2 - 10.1109/SC.2000.10050
DO - 10.1109/SC.2000.10050
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052019260
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing
BT - SC 2000 - Proceedings of the 2000 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 4 November 2000 through 10 November 2000
ER -