Automatic profiling of MPI applications with hardware performance counters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1697, Issue , 1999, Pages 35-42

  Rabenseifner, Rolf ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Counter profiling; Hardware performance counters; Instrumentation; MPI; PCL; PerfAPI; Trace based profiling

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COUNTER PROFILING; HARDWARE PERFORMANCE COUNTERS; INSTRUMENTATION; PERFAPI; TRACE-BASED PROFILING;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 84958041869     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48158-3_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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