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Message passing libraries offer the programmer a set of primitives that are not available in sequential programming. Developing applications using these primitives as well as application performance tuning are complex tasks for non-expert users. Therefore, automatic performance analysis tools that help the user with performance analysis and tuning phases are necessary. KappaPI 2 is a performance analysis tool designed openly to incorporate parallel performance knowledge about performance bottlenecks easily. The tool is able to detect and analyze performance bottlenecks and then make suggestions to the user to improve the application behavior.
This work has been supported by the MCyT under contract number TIN 2004-03388 and partially funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya – Grup de recerca consolidat 2001-SGR-00218.
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Jorba, J., Margalef, T., Luque, E. (2005). Automatic Performance Analysis of Message Passing Applications Using the KappaPI 2 Tool. In: Di Martino, B., Kranzlmüller, D., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557265_39
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