Performance tuning of message passing programs through visual analysis

Author

Lei, Sute ; Zhang, Kang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

1994

fDate

19-22 Dec 1994

Firstpage

730

Lastpage

735

Abstract

Designing a parallel program to fully utilise the processing power of a multiprocessor machine requires a series of performance analysis and tuning. The paper describes a performance tuning tool for message passing parallel programs. The tool combines the advantages of relational databases and spreadsheets to organise the performance data and analyse the program performance through visualisation. Various graphical displays which assist the user to fine tune the performance of message passing programs are discussed

Keywords

message passing; parallel programming; program diagnostics; software performance evaluation; visual programming; graphical displays; message passing programs; multiprocessor machine; parallel program; parallel programs; performance analysis; performance data; performance tuning; processing power; relational databases; spreadsheets; tuning tool; visual analysis; Data analysis; Data visualization; Debugging; Displays; Instruments; Message passing; Monitoring; Multiprocessing systems; Performance analysis; Relational databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1994. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6555-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.1994.590455

Filename

590455