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Parallel systems present a special challenge to debugging and performance analysis given the massive amounts of data and physically distributed state of the application. We describe an integrated toolset that provides an extensible and consistent programming environment for monitoring and visualizing the performance of parallel applications. It uses a scalable distributed monitoring system to gather performance data that drive profiling and graphical performance visualization tools. Performance data ara analyzed by both application and system oriented performance tools which are tied together by a common graphical interface.
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Ries, B. et al. (1993). The paragon performance monitoring environment. In: Volkert, J. (eds) Parallel Computation. ACPC 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 734. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57314-3_19
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