Friday, July 17

MS78
Performance Analysis and Visualization Tools for Scientific Computation

2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Room: Sidney Smith 2117

Developing an application program that achieves high performance requires a cycle of experimentation and refinement in which one first identifies the key program components responsible for the bulk of the program's execution time and then modifies the program in the hope of improving its performance. Performance analysis and visualization tools are crucial components for this cycle to be effective. The speakers in this minisimposium will survey some of the state of the art performance visualization tools, available in public domain for scientific computing, and will present trends in instrumentation and visualization for parallel and distributed applications.

2:00 Multi-level Performance Analysis and Visualization of MPI Programs

Diane T. Rover and Kenneth Wright, Michigan State University

2:30 The Paradyn Parallel Performance Tool

Brian J. N. Wylie, Barton P. Miller and the Paradyn Group, University of Wisconsin, Madison

3:00 Interactive Compilation and Performance Analysis with Ursa Minor/Major

Rudi Eigenmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette

3:30 The SvPablo Tool for Performance Visualization and Tuning of Scientific Programs

Luiz A. De Rose, Organizer; and Daniel Reed, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign