Experiences and lessons learned with a portable interface to hardware performance counters

Jack Dongarra; Kevin London; Shirley Moore; Philip Mucci; Daniel Terpstra; Haihang You; Min Zhou

doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213517

Experiences and lessons learned with a portable interface to hardware performance counters

Jack Dongarra, Kevin London, Shirley Moore, Philip Mucci, Daniel Terpstra, Haihang You, Min Zhou

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Abstract

The PAPI project has defined and implemented a cross-platform interface to the hardware counters available on most modern microprocessors. The interface has gained widespread use and acceptance from hardware vendors, users, and tool developers. This paper reports on experiences with the community-based open-source effort to define the PAPI specification and implement it on a variety of platforms. Collaborations with tool developers who have incorporated support for PAPI are described. Issues related to interpretation and accuracy of hardware counter data and to the overheads of collecting this data are discussed. The paper concludes with implications for the design of the next version of PAPI.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	0769519261, 9780769519265
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213517
State	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003 - Nice, France Duration: Apr 22 2003 → Apr 26 2003

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Name	Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003

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Conference	International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003
Country/Territory	France
City	Nice
Period	04/22/03 → 04/26/03

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Dongarra, J., London, K., Moore, S., Mucci, P., Terpstra, D., You, H., & Zhou, M. (2003). Experiences and lessons learned with a portable interface to hardware performance counters. In Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003 Article 1213517 (Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213517

Dongarra, Jack ; London, Kevin ; Moore, Shirley et al. / Experiences and lessons learned with a portable interface to hardware performance counters. Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2003. (Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003).

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Dongarra, J, London, K, Moore, S, Mucci, P, Terpstra, D, You, H & Zhou, M 2003, Experiences and lessons learned with a portable interface to hardware performance counters. in Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003., 1213517, Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003, Nice, France, 04/22/03. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213517

Experiences and lessons learned with a portable interface to hardware performance counters. / Dongarra, Jack; London, Kevin; Moore, Shirley et al.
Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2003. 1213517 (Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003).

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Dongarra J, London K, Moore S, Mucci P, Terpstra D, You H et al. Experiences and lessons learned with a portable interface to hardware performance counters. In Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2003. 1213517. (Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003). doi: 10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213517

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