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Log File Formats for Parallel Applications: A Review

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The objective of this paper is the review of the log file formats that allow the performance visualization of parallel applications based on the usage of message passing interface (MPI) standard. These file formats have been designed by the LANS (Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Software) group of the Argonne National Laboratory and they are distributed together with the corresponding viewers as part of the MPE (multipurpose environment) library of the MPICH implementation of the MPI. The formats studied in this paper is the ALOG, CLOG, SLOG1 and SLOG2 file formats—the formats are studied in chronological order and the main features of their structures are presented.

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Margaris, A.I. Log File Formats for Parallel Applications: A Review. Int J Parallel Prog 37, 195–222 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10766-009-0093-x

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