Implementation of visual MPI parallel program performance analysis tool for cluster environments

Author

Li, Kuan-Ching ; Chang, Hsun-Chang ; Yang, Chao-Tung ; Chang, Li-Jen ; Cheng, Hsiang-Yao ; Lee, Liang-Teh

Author_Institution

Dept. of CSIM, Providence Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

28-30 March 2005

Firstpage

215

Abstract

In this paper, we present visual tool for performance measurement and analysis of MPI parallel programs in cluster environments. Most of tools available today for cluster systems show solely system performance data (e.g., CPU load, memory usage, network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server average load, among others), being more suitable for system administrators who maintain such system. The visual tool is designed to show performance data of all computer nodes involved in the execution of MPI parallel program, such as CPU load level and memory usage. Additionally, this tool is able to display comparative performance data charts of multiple executions of the application (instrumented with MPI interface) under development.

Keywords

data visualisation; message passing; parallel programming; program visualisation; software performance evaluation; workstation clusters; cluster environments; monitoring tools; performance data charts; performance visualization; visual MPI parallel program performance analysis tool; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer displays; Concurrent computing; Instruments; Measurement; Network servers; Performance analysis; System performance; Temperature; Distributed Computing; MPI Parallel Programs; Monitoring Tools; Performance Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2005. AINA 2005. 19th International Conference on

ISSN

1550-445X

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2249-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AINA.2005.210

Filename

1423680