Performance and Profiling Tools

Tools Listed in BC Policy FY07-02

PAPI: Consistent interface to hardware counters and events
Scalasca: Scalable trace analysis package
TAU: Performance analysis of parallel applications
Valgrind: Memory management analysis and profiling

Access

All packages are installed within $PET_HOME/pkgs/

TAU supports both PAPI and Scalasca, and so, many users may find it easier to use TAU to invoke features of PAPI and Scalasca.

Additional details on how to use these tools can be found at the PETTT Advanced Computational Environments (ACE) Software Repository located at:

http://pettt-ace.com

The software deployment matrix in the above link provides details on specific installs on each resource.

Support

Since the PETTT ACE team is maintaining this suite of software, they also accept responsibility for providing user support. Questions/problems/issues involving any of the profiling tools supported by ACE can be addressed to the PETTT ACE team by sending an email to pettt_requests@hpti.com.

Last Updated: 03.09.11