SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2007

Parallel Performance Wizard: A Generalized Performance Analysis Tool

Session: Posters Reception

Event Type: Poster

Time: 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Session Chair: Tamara K Grimmett

Author(s): Hung-Hsun Su, Max Billingsley III, Seth Koehler, John Curreri, Alan D. George

Location: Ballroom Lobby

Abstract:
Scientific programmers using any of the existing parallel programming models often must rely on performance analysis tools to help them optimize the performance of their programs. There are many existing tools designed to fill this need, but they generally support a limited selection of programming models and cannot be easily extended to support additional models. In tackling this problem, we present the extension of Parallel Performance Wizard (PPW), a tool originally designed for partitioned global-address-space (PGAS) models, to employ a generic operation-type-based framework that makes it possible to add support for additional models with minimal effort. As a proof of concept, we show how support for the Messing Passing Interface (MPI) was quickly added to PPW and discuss work currently underway to support reconfigurable computing applications employing both traditional CPUs and FPGAs.

Chair/Author Details:

Tamara K Grimmett (Chair)
INL

Hung-Hsun Su
University of Florida

Max Billingsley III
University of Florida

Seth Koehler
University of Florida

John Curreri
University of Florida

Alan D. George
University of Florida

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