The P3 Explorer: An Open Database of Performance, Portability, and Productivity
Matthew A. Smith, Steven A. Wright, Zaman Lantra, Gihan R. Mudalige · 2025
This paper introduces a web-based tool designed to organise and present visual representations of performance, portability, and productivity (P3) data from previously published scientific studies. The P3 Explorer operates as both an open repository of application performance data and a data dashboard, providing visual heuristic analyses of performance portability and developer productivity, created using Intel’s P3 Analysis library. The goal of the project is to create a community-led database of P3 studies to better inform application developers of alternative approaches to developing new applications that target high performance on diverse hardware, considering the productivity of the developer. In this paper, we evaluate our tool using a recently published study outlining a performance portable domain-specific language for particle-in-cell applications.