Specification Techniques for Automatic Performance Analysis Tools
Michael Gerndt, Hans-Georg Eßer
Central Institute for Applied Mathematics
Research Centre Juelich
{m.gerndt, h.-ge.esser}@fz-juelich.de
Abstract.
Performance Analysis of parallel programs is a time-consuming task
and requires a lot of experience. It is the goal of the KOJAK project
at the Research Centre Juelich to develop an automatic performance
analysis environment. A key requirement for the success of this new
environment is its easy integration with already existing tools on
the target platform. The design should lead to tools that cas be
easily retargeted to different parallel machines based on
specification documents. This article outlines the features of the
APART Specification Language designed for that purpose and
demonstrates its applicability in the context of the KOJAK Cost
Analyzer, a first prototpye tool of KOJAK.