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Three interacting tools to assist distributed memory programmers in developing, optimising and understanding application performance have been developed. These tools perform automatic code generation from an initial workload specification, performance prediction using memory hierarchy simulation, and performance visualisation for distributed memory message passing applications. Their combination facilitates extensive performance tuning from initial workload specification through to completed message passing program codes.
This work is supported in part by ESPRIT project P6643 (PPPE).
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Dunlop, A., Hernández, E., Naím, O., Hey, T., Nicole, D. (1995). A toolkit for optimising parallel performance. In: Hertzberger, B., Serazzi, G. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0046680
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