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- From: angela@prosun.first.gmd.de (Angela Sodan)
- Subject: Performance Tools
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.143533.21467@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de
- Organization: GMD-FIRST
- Date: 17 Jul 92 12:04:59 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- Hello,
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- we are currently looking for tools visualizing the performance behaviour of
- parallel programs. We are parallelizing Lisp for the Manna architecture
- (distributed memory, i860 processor). Our current simulation environment
- is a SUN or a SUN net, respectively. So the tool should run on SUN with X.
- At the moment we only want to visualize data from traces and simulations
- (simulation is also still to be written). Later, however, there will be the
- need for visualizing real data from runs on the Manna computer. The operating
- system group also needs visualization, so we would prefer a more general
- solution than just being able to visualize our Lisp output. (Our operating
- system PEACE is written in C++, and our Lisp system has a C interface.)
-
- One tool which we have considered is ParaGraph. It seems us to be quite nice
- but is limited to 16 nodes. In addition we will try the Topsys system from
- the Technical University of Munich. Within an article of Kathleen Nichols in
- IEEE Software, 1990, I found descriptions of Simple/Care and of Axe (for DEC
- only?) which seemed me to be quite interesting. Does anyone know where I can
- get more information about Simple/Care and where I can get the software?
- (it is announced to be public domain) Has anyone experience with it?
-
- I am also interested in information about any other performance visualization
- tools which might be appropriate for our purposes.
-
- Please send answers to angela@prosun.first.gmd.de. If I get sufficient
- feedback, I will post a summary.
-
- Thanks in advance for your help, Angela
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