Distributed performance monitoring: methods, tools, and applications

Author

Hofman, R. ; Klar, R. ; Mohr, B. ; Quick, A. ; Siegle, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Math. Maschinen, Erlangen-Nurnberg Univ., Germany

Volume

5

Issue

6

fYear

1994

fDate

6/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

585

Lastpage

598

Abstract

A method for analyzing the functional behavior and the performance of programs in distributed systems is presented. We use hybrid monitoring, a technique which combines advantages of both software monitoring and hardware monitoring. The paper contains a description of a hardware monitor and a software package (ZM4/SIMPLE) which make our concepts available to programmers, assisting them in debugging and tuning of their code. A short survey of related monitor systems highlights the distinguishing features of our implementation. As an application of our monitoring and evaluation system, the analysis of a parallel ray tracing program running on the SUPRENUM multiprocessor is described. It is shown that monitoring and modeling both rely on a common abstraction of a system´s dynamic behavior and therefore can be integrated to one comprehensive methodology. This methodology is supported by a set of tools

Keywords

distributed processing; performance evaluation; program debugging; system monitoring; SUPRENUM; common abstraction; debugging; distributed systems; dynamic behavior; functional behavior; hybrid monitoring; monitoring; parallel ray tracing program; performance monitoring; tuning; Application software; Debugging; Hardware; Instruments; Monitoring; Packaging; Performance analysis; Predictive models; Programming profession; Ray tracing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/71.285605

Filename

285605