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SpeedShop User's Guide

Document Number: 007-3311-011

Front Matter

| List of Figures | List of Tables | List of Procedures |

Table of Contents

New Features in this Guide

About This Guide
Related Publications
Obtaining Publications
Conventions
Reader Comments

1. Introduction to Performance Analysis
Sources of Performance Problems
Fixing Performance Problems
SpeedShop Tools
Using SpeedShop Tools for Performance Analysis

2. Tutorial for C Users
Tutorial Overview
Tutorial Setup
Analyzing Performance Data

3. Tutorial for Fortran Users
Tutorial Overview
Tutorial Setup
Analyzing Performance Data
MPI Tracing Tutorial

4. Experiment Types
Selecting an Experiment
Floating-Point Exception Trace Experiment (fpe)
Heap Trace Experiment (heap)
Hardware Counter Experiments (*_hwc, *_hwctime)
Basic Block Counting Experiment (bbcounts)
I/O Trace Experiment (io)
MPI Call Tracing Experiment (mpi/mpi_trace)
NUMA Profiling Experiment (numa)
PC Sampling Experiment (pcsamp)
Call Stack Profiling Experiment (usertime/totaltime)

5. Collecting Data on Machine Resource Usage
ssusage Syntax
ssusage Results

6. Setting Up and Running Experiments: ssrun
Building Your Executable
Setting Up Output Directories and Files
Run-Time Environment Variables
Using Marching Orders
Running Experiments
Running Experiments on MPI Programs
Running Experiments on Programs Using Pthreads
Running Experiments on Programs That Use OpenMP Directives
Using Calipers
Effects of ssrun

7. Analyzing Experiment Results
Using prof to Generate Performance Reports
Using prof with ssrun
Using prof Options
Generating Reports for Different Machine Types
Generating Reports for Multiprocessed Executables
Determining Program Overhead
Generating Compiler Feedback Files
Comparing Experiment Results

8. Miscellaneous Commands
Using the thrash Command
Using the squeeze Command
Calculating the Working Set of a Program
Combining Multiple Experiment Files into One

Glossary

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SpeedShop User's Guide
(document number: 007-3311-011 / published: 2003-08-23)    table of contents  |  additional info  |  download

    Front Matter
    New Features in this Guide
    About This Guide
    Chapter 1. Introduction to Performance Analysis
    Chapter 2. Tutorial for C Users
    Chapter 3. Tutorial for Fortran Users
    Chapter 4. Experiment Types
    Chapter 5. Collecting Data on Machine Resource Usage
    Chapter 6. Setting Up and Running Experiments: ssrun
    Chapter 7. Analyzing Experiment Results
    Chapter 8. Miscellaneous Commands
    Glossary
    Index


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