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We present an approach to the development of a performance analysis environment for parallel applications running on networked workstations under message passing environments (PVM, MPI). Instrumentation of a parallel program is carried out with a graphical tool. Then an application is compiled and linked. An execution trace is processed with tools using a trace handling language. A series of metrics and visualizations help to conclude about application behavior. As an example we show the results of applying the environment to performance analysis of a molecular dynamics simulation parallel program.
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Bubak, M., Funika, W., Mościński, J. (1997). Performance analysis environment for parallel applications on networked workstations. In: Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1225. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0031683
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