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Workshop on Performance Tools for Petascale Computing

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July 21-24, 2008, Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort, Snowbird, Utah, USA

Organizers

Abstract

Soon petascale computer systems will be available to the DOE science community. Compared to existing systems, these emerging machines represent a dramatic increase in scale and complexity. Making effective use of systems at this scale will require performance tools that help application developers by pinpointing and explaining application performance bottlenecks. Two performance challenges for applications are to make effective use of processor nodes, and to keep parallelization overhead low enough so that extreme-scale parallelism is practical.

Providing tools that make it possible to address these problems is requiring increasingly sophisticated methods for instrumentation, measurement, analysis and modeling of application performance. Meeting these challenges will require tools with unprecedented capabilities.

Today, research and development in the area of performance tools for parallel systems is fragmented. Individual groups have developed tools and components with unique capabilities. Working together to capitalize these capabilities into shared community infrastructure would reduce duplication of effort, accelerate development of effective tools with increasing sophistication, and simplify the process of developing tools for new systems as they emerge.

The goal of this workshop was to bring together performance tools researchers to foster collaboration on a community infrastructure for performance tools. Specific aims of the workshop included

  • Identifying performance tool capabilities needed to analyze the spectrum of issues that arise with emerging petascale platforms.
  • Discussing emerging capabilities of research and commercial tools in this space.
  • Identifying common needs, functionality, and opportunities for sharing infrastructure.
  • Discussing design aspects of sharable components.
  • Developing standardized interfaces to facilitate sharing.

Working Agenda

Monday, July 21, 2008

7:45am - 9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00am - 9:30am
Welcome, Introductions, Workshop Challenges and Goals slides
Bart Miller and John Mellor-Crummey, Univ. of Wisconsin and Rice Univ.
9:30am - 10:30am
HPCToolkit Components for Measurement, Analysis, and Presentation abstract slides
Mark Krentel, Laksono Adhianto and John Mellor-Crummey, Rice Univ.
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:00pm
The Dyninst Binary Code Toolkits abstract slides
Drew Bernat, Matt Legendre, Bill Williams, Univ. of Wisconsin
12:00pm - 12:30pm
LLNL tool components: LaunchMON, P^nMPI, and GraphLib abstract slides
Martin Schulz, LLNL
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch on your own
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Generalizing Components from Open|SpeedShop abstract slides
Jim Galarowicz, Krell Institute
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Scalasca Components with Reuse Potential abstract slides
Felix Wolf and Bernd Mohr, Forschungszentrum Jülich
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Perfmon2 Status Update abstract slides
Stephane Eranian, Google
3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 4:30pm
MRNet for Scalable Tool Communication and Data Analysis abstract slides
Dorian Arnold, Univ. of Wisconsin
4:30pm - 5:00pm
The Scalable Tools Communication Infrastructure abstract slides
Rich Graham, ORNL
5:00pm - 5:30pm
MPI State Profiling abstract slides
Marty Itzkowitz, Sun Microsystems
6:00pm-8:00pm Working Buffet Dinner
Discuss tools challenges and opportunities for collaboration
Location: Atrium Patio (Rain plan: Atrium Restaurant)
8:00pm-??? Late night hacking and collaborative work

Tuesday Morning, July 22, 2008

7:45am - 9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00am - 9:30am
Integrating Knowledge, Automation, and Persistence with PerfExplorer and PerfDMF abstract slides
Kevin Huck, Univ. of Oregon
9:30am - 10:00am
New techniques and integration efforts in the CEPBA-Tools environment abstract slides
Jesus Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputer Center
10:00am - 10:30am
MATE and DMA: Tools for Dynamic Performance Analysis abstract slides
Eduardo Cesar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 11:30am
BitBlaze: Binary Analysis for Computer Security abstract slides
Dawn Song, UC Berkeley
11:30am - 12:00pm
A Path towards a Common Binary Analysis IR abstract slides
Jeff Hollingsworth, University of Maryland
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Integrated Performance Monitoring from Application to Workload abstract abstract
David Skinner, LBNL
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch on your own

Break-out Groups (Tuesday Afternoon, Wednesday and Thursday)

We propose to break the attendees into working groups. The actual topics will be decided by the attendees. Here are some initial suggestions for possible topics:


Tuesday Afternoon, July 22, 2008

2:00pm - 3:30pm Working Groups
3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 5:30pm Working Groups
6:30pm Dinner on your own

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

7:45am - 9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am Working Groups
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Working Groups
12:30pm Lunch on your own
1:00pm - 5:30pm Informal discussion of research challenges, ongoing tools research, working group activities, and collaboration plans
6:30pm-8:00pm Working Buffet Dinner
Continue discussion of working group topics and plan collaborative work
Location: Atrium Patio (Rain plan: Atrium Restaurant)
8:00pm-??? Late night hacking and collaborative work

Thursday, July 24, 2008

7:45am - 9:00am Hot Breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am Working Groups
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Working Groups
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch on your own
2:00pm - 3:30pm Working Groups
3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm Working Groups
5:00pm - 5:30pm Plenary discussion and workshop wrapup
6:30pm Dinner on your own

Sponsors

This workshop is sponsored by the Center for Scalable Application Development Software, with funding from the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program.

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