Visualizing Hierarchical Performance Profiles of Parallel Codes Using CallFlow

Calling context trees (CCTs) couple performance metrics with call paths, helping understand the execution and performance of parallel programs. To identify performance bottlenecks, programmers and performance analysts visually explore CCTs to form and validate hypotheses regarding degraded performan...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 27(2021), 4 vom: 15. Apr., Seite 2455-2468
1. Verfasser: Nguyen, Huu Tan (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Bhatele, Abhinav, Jain, Nikhil, Kesavan, Suraj P, Bhatia, Harsh, Gamblin, Todd, Ma, Kwan-Liu, Bremer, Peer-Timo
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Calling context trees (CCTs) couple performance metrics with call paths, helping understand the execution and performance of parallel programs. To identify performance bottlenecks, programmers and performance analysts visually explore CCTs to form and validate hypotheses regarding degraded performance. However, due to the complexity of parallel programs, existing visual representations do not scale to applications running on a large number of processors. We present CallFlow, an interactive visual analysis tool that provides a high-level overview of CCTs together with semantic refinement operations to progressively explore CCTs. Using a flow-based metaphor, we visualize a CCT by treating execution time as a resource spent during the call chain, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our design with case studies on large-scale, production simulation codes
Beschreibung:Date Revised 04.03.2021
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2019.2953746