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TAU

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TAU performance systemⓇ ; Tuning and analysis utilities

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The TAU Performance SystemⓇ is an integrated suite of tools for instrumentation, measurement, and analysis of parallel programs with particular focus on large-scale, high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. TAU’s objectives are to provide a flexible and interoperable framework for performance tool research and development, and robust, portable, and scalable set of technologies for performance evaluation on high-end computer systems.

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Scalable parallel systems have always evolved together with the tools used to observe, understand, and optimize their performance. Next-generation parallel computing environments are guided to a significant degree by what is known about application performance on current machines and how performance factors might be influenced by technological innovations. State-of-the-art performance tools play an important role in helping to understand application...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Performance Research Laboratory, Neuroinformatics Center, University of Oregon, 1600 Millrace Dr., Suite 111, 97403, Eugene, OR, USA

    Sameer Shende

  2. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, Room 307 Deschutes, 97403, Eugene, OR, USA

    Allen D. Malony

  3. Performance Research Laboratory, Neuroinformatics Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

    Alan Morris

  4. Performance Research Laboratory, Neuroinformatics Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

    Wyatt Spear

  5. Performance Research Laboratory, Neuroinformatics Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

    Scott Biersdorff

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  1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    David Padua

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Shende, S., Malony, A.D., Morris, A., Spear, W., Biersdorff, S. (2011). TAU. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_59

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