Sarat, Thanks for your continued interest in OSCAR development. I know there have been several requests for an HPL package from users, but you probably have a better idea of what kinds of tools people need than most.
It is great to see people in the research community with an interest in OSCAR. On 9/24/05, Sarat Sreepathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I previously expressed interest in developing/packaging performance > analysis tools for OSCAR. I apologize for the delay but felt it's better to > start late than never. I request your valuable feedback on how I should > proceed in this direction. The following are my thoughts on this issue. > > Performance Analysis at a higher level can be focused either on the system > or the application. > > 1. Performance analysis of systems typically comprises of identifying the > strengths and weaknesses of a particular system by running and analysing > certain benchmark results. These results can further be used to identify the > kind of applications that would perform better on that platform. > 2. Performance analysis of applications typically comprises of profiling the > application by either instrumenting the application at source level,link > time or dynamic instrumentation among other methods. Then depending on the > need, tracing information may also be obtained. These results are then used > to identify bottlenecks and suggest optimizations. > > So what I'm trying to understand here is whether I should work towards both > these goals or concentrate on one of them. My current research(at grad > school) focuses on performance tools evaluation by analysing HPC > applications. I've used several tools during my work including TAU(Tuning > and Analysis utilities, > http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/tau/home.php) from Univ. > of Oregon, SvPablo from > UNC(http://www.renci.org/lacsi/software/SvPablo/), PAPI, > mpiP, PerfSuite etc. > > So I could work on packaging one of these tools like TAU for OSCAR which > would serve the second goal. > Or alternately I could work on creating a package for a benchmark like > HPL(http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/) for the OSCAR > environment. > So I request your feedback on what directions to follow and feel free to > correct me if I'm missing the point. Also please point links to resources on > how to create a OSCAR package. > > Thanks, > Sarat. > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Sarat Sreepathi > Graduate Research Assistant > Dept. of Computer Science > North Carolina State University > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ (919)607-1375 > http://www4.ncsu.edu/~sssreepa > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
