Abstract
With parallel file I/O we are faced with the situation that we do not have appropriate tools to get an insight into the I/O server behavior depending on the I/O calls in the corresponding parallel MPI program. We present an approach that allows us to also get event traces from the I/O server environment and to merge them with the client trace. Corresponding events will be matched and visualized. We integrate this functionality into the parallel file system PVFS2 and the MPICH2 tool Jumpshot.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
APART (Homepage), http://www.kfa-juelich.de/apart/
Intel Trace Analyzer & Collector (Home page), http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/cluster/tanalyzer/index.htm
Krempel, S.: Tracing Connections Between MPI Calls and Resulting PVFS2 Disk Operations, Bachelor’s Thesis, March, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany (2006)
Ludwig, T.: Research Trends in High Performance Parallel Input/Output for Cluster Environments. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Scientific and Practical Conference on Programming UkrPROG 2004, pp. 274–281. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine (2004)
Miller, B.P., et al.: The Paradyn Parallel Performance Measurement Tool. IEEE Computer, Special issue on performance evaluation tools for parallel and distributed computer systems 28(11), 37–46 (1995)
MPICH2 home page (Home page), http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2/index.htm
Panse, F.: Extended Tracing Capabilities and Optimization of the PVFS2 Event Logging Management, Diploma Thesis, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany (to be submitted)
Paradyn Parallel Performance Tools (Home page), http://www.paradyn.org/index.html
Performance Visualization for Parallel Programs (Home page), http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/perfvis/
Shende, S., Malony, A.: The Tau Parallel Performance System. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 20, 287–311 (2006)
TAU – Tuning and Analysis Utilities (Home page), http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/tau/
The Parallel Virtual File System – Version 2 (Home page), http://www.pvfs.org/pvfs2/
The PVFS2 Development Team: PVFS2 Internal Documentation included in the source code package (2006)
Withanage, D.: Performance Visualization for the PVFS2 Environment, Bachelor’s Thesis, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany (November 2005)
XMPI – A Run/Debug GUI for MPI (Home page), http://www.lam-mpi.org/software/xmpi/
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2006 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Ludwig, T., Krempel, S., Kunkel, J., Panse, F., Withanage, D. (2006). Tracing the MPI-IO Calls’ Disk Accesses. In: Mohr, B., Träff, J.L., Worringen, J., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11846802_45
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11846802_45
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-39110-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-39112-8
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)