Open Source Performance and Profiling Tools

This category defines a set of performance and profiling tools, each having the same version and configuration across all participating centers. The suite of maintained packages consists of the following:

  • PAPI: Consistent interface to hardware counters and events
  • SCALASCA: Scalable trace analysis package
  • TAU: Performance analysis of parallel applications
  • Valgrind: Memory management analysis and profiling

All information on how to access these tools is provided in BC Common Capability "Open Source Performance and Profiling Tools."