Shared Memory Performance Profiling

This paper describes a new approach to finding performance bottlenecks in shared-memory parallel programs and its embodiment in the Paradyn Parallel Performance Tools running with the Blizzard fine-grain distributed shared memory system. This approach exploits the underlying system's cache coherence protocol to detect data sharing patterns that indicate potential performance bottlenecks and presents performance measurements in a data-centric manner. As a demonstration, Paradyn helped us improve the performance of a new shared-memory application program by a factor of four.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: PPOPP
• Authors: Zhichen Xu, James R. Larus, Barton P. Miller
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Paradyn Parallel Performance, Performance Bottlenecks, Potential Performance Bottlenecks, PPOPP 1997