The intricacy of high performance computing applications has been growing very fast in the
last years. Only skilled analysts are able to determine the factors that are undermining the …

The ALPSTONE project comprises a methodology and tools that guide a programmer of
parallel software from the design of a program to the finished code under the aspect of …

We address the problem of performance prediction for parallel programs execut, ed on
clusters of heterogeneous workstations on which resource contention is present. We …

Simply put, the goal of performance analysis is to provide the data and insights required to
optimize the execution behavior of application or system components. Using such data and …

In order to take on the challenge of fully automatic program parallelizing, one of the last and
probably the most decisive missing tool is a performance estimation system. In this paper a …

Today's massively parallel machines are typically message passing systems consisting of
hundreds or thousands of processors. Implementing parallel applications efficiently in this …

For designers of large-scale parallel computers, it is greatly desired that performance of
parallel applications can be predicted at the design phase. However, this is difficult because …

Parallel application developers are facing a myriad of parameters when trying to understand
the performance behavior of their code. Even within a single hardware configuration, the …

Performance prediction across platforms is increasingly important as developers can choose
from a wide range of execution platforms. The main challenge remains to perform accurate …

Performance evaluation studies are to be an integral part of the design and tuning of parallel
applications. We propose a hierarchical approach to the systematic characterization of the …