FINESSE: a prototype feedback-guided performance enhancement system

Author

Mukherjee, N. ; Riley, G.D. ; Gurd, J.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK

fYear

2000

fDate

6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

109

Abstract

FINESSE is a prototype environment designed to support rapid development of parallel programs for single-address space computers by both expert and non-expert programmers. The environment provides semi-automatic support for systematic, feedback-based reduction of the various classes of overhead associated with parallel execution. The characterisation of parallel performance by overhead analysis is first reviewed, and then the functionality provided by FINESSE is described. The utility of this environment is demonstrated by using it to develop parallel implementations for an SGI Origin 2000 platform of Tred2, a well-known benchmark for automatic parallelising compilers

Keywords

parallel machines; parallel programming; parallelising compilers; programming environments; software performance evaluation; FINESSE; SGI Origin 2000; Tred2; benchmark; feedback-guided performance enhancement; overhead analysis; parallel programming; parallelising compilers; programming environment; prototype environment; single-address space computers; Application software; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Electronic switching systems; Hardware; Memory architecture; Monitoring; Performance analysis; Performance loss; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2000. Proceedings. 8th Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Rhodos

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0500-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.2000.823400

Filename

823400