GASP: A Performance Analysis Tool Interface for Global AddressSpace Programming Models, Version 1.5

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Title: GASP: A Performance Analysis Tool Interface for Global AddressSpace Programming Models, Version 1.5

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Due to the wide range of compilers and the lack of astandardized performance tool interface, writers of performance toolsface many challenges when incorporating support for global address space(GAS) programming models such as Unified Parallel C (UPC), Titanium, andCo-Array Fortran (CAF). This document presents a Global Address SpacePerformance tool interface (GASP) that is flexible enough to be adaptedinto current global address space compiler and runtime infrastructureswith little effort, while allowing performance analysis tools to gathermuch information about the performance of global address spaceprograms.

Authors:: Leko, Adam; Bonachea, Dan; Su, Hung-Hsun; George, Alan D; Sherburne, Hans; George, Alan D

Publication Date:: 2006-09-14

Research Org.:: COLLABORATION - U.Florida

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 918569

Report Number(s):: LBNL-61606
R&D Project: K11122; BnR: KJ0102000; TRN: US200825%%123

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING; FORTRAN; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAMMING; TITANIUM; GASP Performance Interface Performance Analysis Tool GlobalAddress Space UPC

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                    Leko, Adam, Bonachea, Dan, Su, Hung-Hsun, George, Alan D, Sherburne, Hans, and George, Alan D. GASP: A Performance Analysis Tool Interface for Global AddressSpace Programming Models, Version 1.5.  United States: N. p., 2006. 
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                    Leko, Adam, Bonachea, Dan, Su, Hung-Hsun, George, Alan D, Sherburne, Hans, & George, Alan D. GASP: A Performance Analysis Tool Interface for Global AddressSpace Programming Models, Version 1.5.  United States.  doi:10.2172/918569.

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                    Leko, Adam, Bonachea, Dan, Su, Hung-Hsun, George, Alan D, Sherburne, Hans, and George, Alan D. Thu .  
        "GASP: A Performance Analysis Tool Interface for Global AddressSpace Programming Models, Version 1.5".  United States.  doi:10.2172/918569.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/918569.

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  title        = {GASP: A Performance Analysis Tool Interface for Global AddressSpace Programming Models, Version 1.5},

  author       = {Leko, Adam and Bonachea, Dan and Su, Hung-Hsun and George, Alan D and Sherburne, Hans and George, Alan D},

  abstractNote = {Due to the wide range of compilers and the lack of astandardized performance tool interface, writers of performance toolsface many challenges when incorporating support for global address space(GAS) programming models such as Unified Parallel C (UPC), Titanium, andCo-Array Fortran (CAF). This document presents a Global Address SpacePerformance tool interface (GASP) that is flexible enough to be adaptedinto current global address space compiler and runtime infrastructureswith little effort, while allowing performance analysis tools to gathermuch information about the performance of global address spaceprograms.},

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