Developer Toolbox Topics Relative to
Performance Tuning/Issues
This document presents all materials related to the topic of
Performance Tuning/Issues on the Toolbox:
DOCUMENTS:
- Benchmarks (Appendix B, from OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems, 3/96)
- Benchmarking Libraries: libpdb and libisfast (Appendix C, from OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems, 3/96)
- Benefits of timex, par, and padc re: costs of process execution
- Caching and Locality (11/94)
- Challenge L and XL & Onyx Performance Report #4, 10/93
- Challenge I/O Performance:
- Controlling a Program's Layout with ELSPEC, 11/95
- CSE New Product Info for the R8000 (IP21 board) on Power Challenge & Onyx,
- Design of the R8000 Microprocessor, 6/2/94
- CSE New Product Info for Indigo2, Power ChallengeM R8000 and upgrades, 12/20/94
- efscopy: No Ordinary Copy Utility, Developer News, 1/96
- Fast VisSim On Impact Graphics, 4/96
- GLdebug cheat sheet
- GLprof cheat sheet, explains modes, behaviors
- GLR, an OpenGL render server facility, for IRIX 6.2 or above
- Hardware for Accelerating OpenGL, 9/95
- HIPPI Performance on IRIX 5.2
- IMPACT Configurations, (from Impact Technical Report, Chapter 4, IMPACT Graphics Subsystem)
- Installing and Running IRIX on a Drive Other Than Drive 1, 11/95
- IRIX 5.3 NFS Version 3, 11/95
- IRIX Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules, 3/95
- IRIX Kernel Tunable Parameters, (Appendix A, from IRIX Admin: System Configuration and Operation, 3/96)
- Is your X code ready for 64-bit?, 9/95
- KAP's Optimization Flags (-o, -r, -so) (Chapter 1, from MIPSpro(TM) 64-Bit Porting and Transition Guide, 3/96)
- Kernel Processes in IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.1, 3/96
- Kernel Tuning in IRIX 5.x and IRIX 6.0.x, 7/95
- LIBCONV, An SGI Optimized Library for Convolution and Correlation
- MIPSpro(TM) Compiling and Performance Tuning Guide, 3/96
- Models of Parallel Computation, (Chapter 3, from Topics in IRIX Programming, 3/96)
- MOTIF PERFORMANCE NOTES, SGI internal paper
- Multiprocessing Support (Chapter 1, from MIPSpro(TM) 64-Bit Porting and Transition Guide, 3/96)
- Onyx Platform, Graphics, and General Specifications Tables, 2/96
- OpenGL Render Serving with GLR, for IRIX 6.2 or above
- Optimally Profiling and Tracing Programs, 9/91
- Optimization for Real-Time Graphics Applications, 2/96
- Opimization Levels Passed to KAP (Chapter 1, from MIPSpro(TM) 64-Bit Porting and Transition Guide, 3/96)
- Optimization Switches of the 64-Bit Compilers (Chapter 4, from MIPSpro(TM) 64-Bit Porting and Transition Guide, 3/96)
- Optimizing Open Inventor Applications, Release 2.0, 1993
- Overview of Quickstart, Requickstart, and RLD, the dynamic linker
- Performance, (Chapter 1, from R10000 Microprocessor User's Manual-Version 1.1, 1/96)
- Performance aspects of the X protocol, using xscope for X protocol tracing
- Performance Considerations for X and OpenGL (Chapter 4 from OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems, 3/96)
- Performance optimizations, implementation, and verification of the SGI Challenge multiprocessor
- Program Performance Tuning (class slides)
- Performance Tuning for the R8000 (Chapter 6 from MIPSpro(TM) 64-Bit Porting and Transition Guide, 3/96)
- Performance Tuning Tools (Chapter 5, from Programming on Silicon Graphics Systems: An Overview, 3/96)
- REACT(TM) in IRIX 5.3 Technical Report
- REACT(TM) Real-Time Programmer's Guide, 3/96
- Real Shadows - Real Time, 11/91
- Runtime Issues (Chapter 5, from MIPSpro(TM) 64-Bit Porting and Transition Guide, 3/96)
- Scalability in the XFS File System, (1/96)
- SGI Desktop Audio Hardware Performance Specifications (Typical), Indigo², Indy, 3/93
- study of X protocol for reasonably well behaved X client
- System Administration for Guaranteed-Rate I/O (Chapter 9, from IRIX Admin: Disks and Filesystems, 3/96)
- System Performance Tuning (Chapter 11, from IRIX Admin: System Configuration and Operation, 3/96)
- System-Specific Tuning (Chapter 14, from OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems, 3/96)
- Tuning Graphics Applications: Examples (Chapter 13, from OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems, 3/96)
- Tuning Graphics Applications: Fundamentals (Chapter 11, from OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems, 3/96)
- Tuning the Pipeline (Chapter 12, from OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems, 3/96)
- X Performance and You, 8/17/94
- how to optimize X Window System Clients using xscope
SOURCE:
- bench, dinomometer: a synthetic modeling benchmark for OpenGL
- blast & sink, accompanying programs in the HIPPI performance on IRIX 5.2 directory
- cocode, real-time texture mapping color-code properties onto an objects surface
- envmap, environment map and spin objects in real-time
- expmov, does compressing and decompressing streams of images (see also movies)
- glrduckpond.c++, referenced in OpenGL Render Serving with GLR, for IRIX 6.2 or above
- glrduck, rehash of GLR program glrduckpond.c++, using ViewKit and Open Inventor
- gmemusage, graphical memory usage analyzes how programs/system are using memory
- harmonizer, real-time audio pitch bender example
- hrq, host responds quickly code tests to avoid long network timeout delay
- isfast, routines to measure if a given OpenGL feature is fast or not
- load_avg, obtain the current system load average
- playEngine, sproc/semaphore source raises sub-process's priority to circumvent preemption
- phong, real-time texture mapping phong shading example
- reverb, simulated reverberation for real-time audio input and output
- shad, the fastshadows real-time shadow casting program
- shadows, draw true shadows in real-time using the stencil planes
- sonic, simple real time audio spatialization example with graphics
- statsFly.c, statistics collection and display performer program
- timer, high resolution timer of the io3 board on an r4k-based SGI system
- vrp, an example of hardware accelerated volume rendering for Impact RE, & I-Reality
UTILITIES:
- efscopy, powerful/QUIK cloning tool for entire disk's contents
- parasol, analyze FORTRAN source to assist in parallel porting
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