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Research Article
An Open Source performance tools software suite for scientific computing
Article first published online: 5 OCT 2009
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1523
Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Special Issue: International Supercomputing Conference (ISC07)
Volume 22, Issue 2, pages 206–216, February 2010
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How to Cite
Mucci, P. J. and Mohan, T. (2010), An Open Source performance tools software suite for scientific computing. Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper., 22: 206–216. doi: 10.1002/cpe.1523
Publication History
- Issue published online: 24 DEC 2009
- Article first published online: 5 OCT 2009
- Manuscript Accepted: 10 AUG 2009
- Manuscript Received: 31 MAR 2009
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Keywords:
- performance tools;
- performance tuning;
- application performance
Abstract
With the rapid replacement of closed, homogeneous, proprietary HPC systems by heterogeneous, Linux-MPI cluster systems, the state of performance monitoring and analysis tools has become a cause for concern. Proprietary systems, despite their drawbacks, provided consistent tools of high quality. Modern Linux cluster systems, on the other hand, benefit from a wide variety of Open Source tools in differing stages of evolution. Recognizing that Linux clusters are here to stay, SiCortex has taken a unique approach of integrating and enhancing Open Source tools into a production-quality suite. Further, as a tribute to the unrewarded Open Source community developers and for more pragmatic reasons, such as long-term sustainability, changes made to the tools are fed upstream to the original tool developers. In this paper, we present an overview of the SiCortex tools' suite, and some of the challenges and successes we had in the process of realizing it. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.