PRACE tutorial on performance analysis with Paraver and Dimemas, Barcelona, Spain

Sep 6, 2010, 8:00 AM → Sep 9, 2010, 6:00 PM CET

OBJECTIVES: 

The objective of this seminar is to carry out a hands on training on the use of the Paraver and Dimemas tools to analyze the performance of parallel applications.

AGENDA: 

The seminar will take 6 half-day sessions from September 6th to September 9th 2010 with the following agenda:
 

• Monday afternoon: Presentation on the tools and the type of analyses they enable as well as hands on session familiarizing with the navigation on the paraver GUI using traces from a couple of PRACE benchmark codes provided.
• Tuesday morning: Instrumentation of the specific application of choice (small problem/machine size) by eachattendee and first analyses.
• Tuesday afternoon:   Use of clustering techiques (clustering) and further analyses.
• Wednesday morning:   Focus on scalability issues (large problem/machines sizes): How to filter and manipulate large traces; how to obtain traces with summarized data and analyses they support.
• Wednesday afternoon: Hands on Dimemas analyses and predictions.
• Thursday morning: Use of the combined sampling and tracing capabilities for extremely detailed analysis.

Slides http://www.training.prace-ri.eu/events/?tx_typopresscalendar_pi1[uid]=16&no_cache=1