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A Dynamic Tracing Mechanism for Performance Analysis of OpenMP Applications

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OpenMP Shared Memory Parallel Programming (WOMPAT 2001)

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In this paper we present OMPtrace, a dynamic tracing mechanism that combines traditional tracing with dynamic instrumentation and access to hardware performance counters to create a powerful tool for performance analysis and optimization of OpenMP applications. Performance data collected with OMPtrace is used as input to the Paraver visualization tool for detailed analysis of the parallel behavior of the application. We demonstrate the usefulness of OMPtrace and the power of Paraver for tuning OpenMP applications with a case study running the US DOE ASCI Sweep3D benchmark on the IBM SP system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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  1. European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona, Department of Computer Architecture Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Caubet, Judit Gimenez & Jesus Labarta

  2. Advanced Computing Technology Center, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

    Luiz DeRose

  3. Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA

    Jeffrey Vetter

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 1285 EE. Bldg., West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

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Caubet, J., Gimenez, J., Labarta, J., DeRose, L., Vetter, J. (2001). A Dynamic Tracing Mechanism for Performance Analysis of OpenMP Applications. In: Eigenmann, R., Voss, M.J. (eds) OpenMP Shared Memory Parallel Programming. WOMPAT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44587-0_6

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