Title :
Falcon: on-line monitoring and steering of large-scale parallel programs
Author :
Gu, Weiming ; Eisenhauer, Greg ; Kraemer, Eileen ; Schwan, Karsten ; Stasko, John ; Vetter, Jeffrey ; Mallavarupu, Nirupama
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
Falcon is a system for on-line monitoring and steering of large-scale parallel programs. The purpose of such program steering is to improve the application´s performance or to affect its execution behavior. This paper presents the framework of the Falcon system and its implementation, and then evaluates the performance of the system. A complex sample application, a molecular dynamics simulation program (MD), is used to motivate the research as well as to measure the performance of the Falcon system
Keywords :
parallel programming; software performance evaluation; Falcon; large-scale parallel programs; molecular dynamics simulation program; online monitoring; performance; steering; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Computerized monitoring; Concurrent computing; Delay; Displays; Information analysis; Large-scale systems; Physics computing;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1995. Proceedings. Frontiers '95., Fifth Symposium on the
Conference_Location :
McLean, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6965-9
DOI :
10.1109/FMPC.1995.380483
