Efficient performance tuning of parallel programs is often hard. In this paper we describe an approach that uses a uni-processor execution of a multithreaded program as reference ...
Abstract. This paper presents PerWiz, a performance prediction tool for improving the performance of message passing programs. PerWiz focuses on locating where a significant impro...
Parallel application development is a very difficult task for non-expert programmers, and therefore support tools are needed for all phases of this kind of application development...
Abstract. Current hardware trends place increasing pressure on programmers and tools to optimize scientific code. Numerous tools and techniques exist, but no single tool is a pana...
iTuned is a tool that takes a SQL workload as input and recommends good settings for database configuration parameters such as buffer pool sizes, multi-programming level, and numb...