Towards an implementation of the OpenMP collector API

Van Bui, Oscar Hernandez, Barbara Chapman, Rick Kufrin, Danesh Tafti, Pradeep Gopalkrishnan

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Abstract

Parallel programming languages/libraries including OpenMP, MPI, and UPC are either in the process of defining or have already established standard performance profiling interfaces. The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) recently sanctioned an interface specification for profiling/tracing tools that defines a protocol for two-way communications and control between the OpenMP runtime library and performance tools, known as the collector API. Reference implementations of the collector are sparse and are primarily closed-source. We provide a description of our efforts towards a full implementation of an open-source performance monitoring tool for OpenMP based on the collector API. This effort This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 0444468, 0444319, and 0444407. evaluates the collector's approach to performance measurement, assesses what is necessary to implement a performance tool based on the collector interface, and also provides information useful to performance tool developers interested in interfacing with the collector for performance measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationParallel Computing
Subtitle of host publicationArchitectures, Algorithms and Applications
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages573-580
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781586037963
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameAdvances in Parallel Computing
Volume15
ISSN (Print)0927-5452

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation0444319, 0444407, 0444468

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