Tools for scalable performance analysis on petascale systems IPDPS 2009 all symposium tutorial

Tools are becoming increasingly important to efficiently utilize the computing power available in contemporary large scale systems. The drastic increase in the size and the complexity of systems require tools to be scalable while producing meaning full and easily digestible information that may help the user pin-point problems at scale. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce some state-of-the-art performance tools from three different organizations to a diverse audience group. Together these tools provide a broad spectrum of capabilities necessary to analyze the performance of scientific and engineering applications on a variety of large and small scale systems.