A Model-Based Framework for the Integration of Parallel Tools

Watson, Gregory R.; DeBardeleben, Nathan

doi:10.1109/clustr.2006.311883

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“…In the following sections we will describe each of these three aspects of PTP in more detail. The underlying architecture of PTP has already been described in [16]. PTP also provides a framework for integrating performance tools into Eclipse, but discussion of this will be the subject for a future paper.…”

Section: Integrated Tool Platformmentioning

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An integrated approach to improving the parallel application development process

Watson

Rasmussen

Tibbitts

2009

2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel &Amp; Distributed Processing

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The development of parallel applications is becoming increasingly important to a broad range of industries. Traditionally, parallel programming was a niche area that was primarily exploited by scientists trying to model extremely complicated physical phenomenon. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that continued hardware performance improvements through clock scaling and feature-size reduction are simply not going to be achievable for much longer. The hardware vendor's approach to addressing this issue is to employ parallelism through multi-processor and multi-core technologies. While there is little doubt that this approach produces scaling improvements, there are still many significant hurdles to be overcome before parallelism can be employed as a general replacement to more traditional programming techniques. The Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) Project was created in 2005 in an attempt to provide developers with new tools aimed at addressing some of the parallel development issues. Since then, the introduction of a new generation of peta-scale and multi-core systems has highlighted the need for such a platform. In this paper, we describe some of the challenges facing parallel application developers, present the current state of PTP, and provide a simple case study that demonstrates how PTP can be used to locate a potential deadlock situation in an MPI code.

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Section: Integrated Tool Platformmentioning

confidence: 98%

An integrated approach to improving the parallel application development process

Watson

Rasmussen

Tibbitts

2009

2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel &Amp; Distributed Processing

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“…This offers further advantages in that the approval process can be presented in a guided form. The environment should be capable of extension [5] in order that it may keep apace with rapid architectural changes; otherwise obsolescence is sure to quickly follow. While extension is something that could really only be expected of the experienced user, it is a sound principle on which to base the environment's development, for the purposes of future-proofing.…”

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Paralysis: An Extensible Multi-tiered Guidance Environment for Program Parallelization and Analysis

McCool

Shao

Milligan

et al. 2013

2013 21st Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing

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The heterogeneous computing revolution continues unabated. Yet despite the vast number of naïve users in possession of bespoke software hoping to embrace the opportunities that this revolution has wrought, few approaches proposed in current literature can guide such users in these efforts. The most appropriate choice would appear to be a (semi-)automating compiler. However, these typically target a single device-type and demand the unguided use of directives. Consequently, they are of little use when naïve users are seeking answers to more fundamental questions, such as: which fragments of a program can/should be parallelized, which device should each fragment target, and what speedup will be attained. To this end, this paper expands on previous work and proposes Paralysis -an extensible guidance environment, tiered for varying programmer competencies with support for static and dynamic analysis techniques. At the highest level, guided user experiences are paramount. At the lowest level, underlying functionality is exposed as a set of plug-ins, ensuring longevity. A partial prototype, built atop the Cetus infrastructure, is described. It is used to analyze two serial programs for CUDA execution -the DFT and the Box Blur Filter. Speedups of 15x and 22x are achieved on the basis of the analysis.

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Software engineering practices for scientific software development: A systematic mapping study

Arvanitou

Ampatzoglou

Chatzigeorgiou

et al. 2021

Journal of Systems and Software

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A Model-Based Framework for the Integration of Parallel Tools

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

An integrated approach to improving the parallel application development process

An integrated approach to improving the parallel application development process

Paralysis: An Extensible Multi-tiered Guidance Environment for Program Parallelization and Analysis

Software engineering practices for scientific software development: A systematic mapping study

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