SCALEA: A performance analysis tool for parallel programs

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 15, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 1001-1025

  Truong, Hong Linh ^a   Fahringer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Parallel programs; Performance analysis; Performance overheads; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; DATA PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION; XML;

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS TOOLS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0141637405     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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