Event Streaming for Online Performance Measurements Reduction
Jean-Baptiste Besnard, Marc Pérache, William Jalby · 2013
As the power of supercomputers is exponentially increasing, programmers are facing complex codes designed to comply with today's challenging architectural constraints. In such context, the use of tools within the development cycle, is becoming crucial in order to optimise applications at scale. However, it is not possible to obtain all measurements one can think of, because of the cost to produce, store and analyse large amounts of instrumentation-data. Moreover, the file-system is becoming a critical resource, subject to performance and even stability problems under load. This emphasises the need for an alternative approach to trace data management. This paper proposes an alternative to trace-based coupling between instrumentation and analysis. We present a distributed analysis engine, providing concurrent application profiling, thanks to runtime coupling. After demonstrating the advantages of this method in terms of parallelism, we present performance results and sample outputs for NAS-MPI benchmarks and a representative C++ MPI application.