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Evolution and growth of parallel systems requires continued advances in the tools to measure, characterize, and understand parallel performance. Five recent developments in the TAU Performance System are reported. First, an update is given on support for heterogeneous systems with GPUs. Second, event-based sampling is being integrated in TAU to add new capabilities for performance observation. New wrapping technology has been incorporated in TAU’s instrumentation harness, increasing observation scope. The fourth advance is in the area of performance visualization. Lastly, we discuss our work in Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform.
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This research was conducted at the University of Oregon under grants DE-SC0001777, DEFG02-08ER25846, and DE-SC0006723 from the Department of Energy, Office of Science. Resources from NERSC were utilized in this work. This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.
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Malony, A., Shende, S., Spear, W., Lee, C.W., Biersdorff, S. (2012). Advances in the TAU Performance System. In: Brunst, H., Müller, M., Nagel, W., Resch, M. (eds) Tools for High Performance Computing 2011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31476-6_10
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