[Llvm-bgq-discuss] Performance Tools?

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> you should ask the scalasca folks if that is a real limitation or
> not.  maybe they just don't bother to support gcc since their
> customers over in germany are happy with xl compilers at juelich.
> 
> i know tau works with clang on regular machines so i see no real
> issue there.  i'll let hal decide how to proceed w.r.t. him creating
> wrappers vs. asking sameer to do it.

I sat with Sameer a few months ago in order to create some TAU wrapper scripts. Almost all of the difficult work went into work-arounds for bugs that I've now fixed. I'll ping Sameer about this.

 -Hal

> 
> best,
> 
> jeff
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Schatzberg" <dschatz at bu.edu>
> > To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> > Cc: llvm-bgq-discuss at lists.alcf.anl.gov
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 11:47:21 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Llvm-bgq-discuss] Performance Tools?
> > 
> > Hi Hal and Jeff,
> > 
> > I am trying to determine where the bottlenecks in my software is
> > and
> > my preference is towards the tools which instrument my application
> > to
> > gather performance data. I tried TAU and Scalasca but it seems that
> > Scalasca requires the IBM compilers to work and the TAU
> > installation
> > on Cetus/Mira is only configured for gcc/ibm compilers. I was in
> > the
> > process of configuring it myself when the systems went down for
> > maintenance today. I figured I would ask and see if anyone had any
> > recommendations. Thanks
> > ---
> > Dan Schatzberg
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> > wrote:
> > > Dan,
> > >
> > > What are you looking to do? Some of these tools are just C
> > > libraries (like HPCTW and PAPI), and those should just work. I
> > > believe that Clang's gprof support should be functional, although
> > > I've never tried it.
> > >
> > > I believe that there are a set of bgclang TAU wrapper scripts
> > > somewhere; darshan support is almost ready.
> > >
> > >  -Hal
> > > ----- Dan Schatzberg <dschatz at bu.edu> wrote:
> > >> Hi All,
> > >>
> > >> Argonne has several performance tools installed on the login
> > >> nodes. Do
> > >> any of these work with the bgclang compiler?
> > >>
> > >> https://www.alcf.anl.gov/user-guides/performance-tools-apis
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >> ---
> > >> Dan Schatzberg
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> > > Hal Finkel
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> > > Leadership Computing Facility
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> 
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> Jeff Hammond
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> University of Chicago Computation Institute
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> 

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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory