Event Tracing and Visualization for Cell Broadband Engine Systems
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Abstract
Event-based software tracing is a common technique for developing and optimizing parallel applications. It provides valuable information to application designers. This paper discusses software tracing on the Cell Broadband Engine, a heterogeneous multi-core processor, which is widely used in video game consoles, blade servers, and even supercomputer studies. However, the complex design of the Cell architecture poses challenging problems to developers. Our new monitoring approach improves this situation significantly as it visualizes Cell specific events on the SIMD cores that are usually hidden to programmers. We use the Vampir tool suite for visualization. Our design seamlessly integrates with the respective MPI monitor which additionally enables the tracking of large hybrid Cell/MPI applications.
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages | 172-181 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
Title | European Conference on Parallel Processing |
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Abbreviated title | Euro-Par 2008 |
Conference number | 14 |
Duration | 26 - 29 August 2008 |
Degree of recognition | International event |
City | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
Country | Spain |
External IDs
Scopus | 51849086865 |
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ORCID | /0000-0002-8491-770X/work/141543260 |