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On Performance Modeling for HPF Applications with ASL

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High Performance Computing (ISHPC 2000)

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Multiprocessor systems are increasingly being used to handle large-scale scientific applications that demand high-performance. However, performance analysis is not as mature for multiprocessor systems as for uniprocessor systems, and improved ways of automatic performance analysis are needed to reduce the cost and complexity of developing distributed/ parallel applications. Performance analysis is commonly a cyclic process of measuring and analyzing performance data, identifying and possibly eliminating performance bottlenecks in slow progression. Currently this process is controlled manually by the programmer. We believe that the implicit knowledge applied in this cyclic process should be formalized in order to provide automatic performance analysis for a wider class of programming paradigms and target architectures. This article describes the performance property specification language (ASL) developed in the APART Esprit IV working group which allows specifying performance-related data by an object-oriented model and performance properties by functions and constraints defined over performance-related data. Performance problems and bottlenecks can then be identified based on user- or tool-defined thresholds. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of ASL we apply it to HPF (High Performance Fortran) by successfully formalizing several HPF performance properties.

The ESPRIT IV Working Group on Automatic Performance Analysis: Resources and Tools is funded under Contract No.29488

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  1. Institute for Software Science, University of Vienna, Austria

    Thomas Fahringer

  2. Central Institute for Applied Mathematics, Research Centre Juelich, Germany

    Michael Gerndt

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester

    Graham Riley

  4. C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd., Europe

    Jesper Larsson Träff

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  1. Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

    Mateo Valero

  2. Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Nara Women’s University, Japan

    Kazuki Joe

  3. Institute of Industrial Science Center for Conceptual Information Processing Research, University of Tokyo, Japan

    Masaru Kitsuregawa

  4. Graduate School of Engineering Electrical Engineering Department, University of Tokyo, Japan

    Hidehiko Tanaka

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Fahringer, T., Gerndt, M., Riley, G., Larsson Träff, J. (2000). On Performance Modeling for HPF Applications with ASL. In: Valero, M., Joe, K., Kitsuregawa, M., Tanaka, H. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISHPC 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39999-2_17

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