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Blue Gene/L: Performance Analysis Tools

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Abstract

This IBM Redbooks publication is one in a series of IBM publications written specifically for the IBM System Blue Gene supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, which was developed by IBM in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This book provides an overview of the application development performance analysis environment for Blue Gene/L.

This book explains some of the tools that are available to do application-level performance analysis. It devotes the majority of its content to Chapter 3, "External Performance Instrumentation Facility" and Chapter 4, "Performance Application Programming Interface."

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Performance guidelines and tools
Chapter 2. Comparison of performance tools
Chapter 3. External Performance Instrumentation Facility
Chapter 4. Performance Application Programming Interface
Appendix A. Statement of completion
Appendix B. Electromagnetic compatibility
Appendix C. Perfmon database table specifications
Appendix D. gmon support on Blue Gene/L

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Publish Date
18 July 2006


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ISBN

0738495867

IBM Form Number
SG24-7278-00

Number of pages
154