Kernel Tuning and Analysis Utilities

KTAU Releases

Latest Versions

ktau-3.0 : (06/07/2012)

README_KTAU.txt : (06/07/2012)

- KTAU compatible with tracepoints. This version does not require patching the kernel source code. Simply loading a kernel module is sufficient to instrument it using tracepoints. It also features merging profile data with TAU's user-space profiles.

hpclinux.ova : (06/07/2012)

- An OVA file with KTAU as described in the README file above.

ktau-1.7.15-bgpzepto-p1 : (04/28/09)

- KTAU compatible with ZeptoOS V2.0 for the IBM Blue Gene P.

- Ported to 2.6.19.2 Linux kernel pre-patched with BGP and ZeptoOS patches

- Integrated into the ZeptoOS build system



Previous Releases

ktau-1.7.15-bgpzepto : (11/19/08)

- Tech-preview of KTAU on soon to be released ZeptoOS Linux for Compute Nodes of the IBM Blue Gene P.

- Ported to 2.6.19.2 Linux kernel pre-patched with BGP and ZeptoOS patches


ktau-1.7.14 : (12/15/07)

- Includes feature set as reported in recent SC'07 paper on OS Noise tracking.

- Ported to 2.6.22.1 on x86_64

- Ported to 2.6.15 on SiCortex MIPS

ktau-1.7.7 : (11/11/06)

- Better "merge" support between user-space and kernel-space

- Ported to 2.6.18.1 on i386 and x86_64

ktau-1.7.6-zeptoos.tar.gz : For the Blue Gene / L's ZeptoOS distribution version Linux 2.6.5 (ppc) ZeptoOS-1.4-V1R3M0


ktau-1.7.3-1 : (1/20/06)

- Fix bugs in the user-space tool which causes segmentation fault.


ktau-1.7.3 : (1/1/06)

- Allowing KTAU instrumentation to be enabled/disabled through Linux kernel boot option

- Ported to Linux-2.4.32

- Ported to Linux-2.6.14.3


ktau-pre-1.6 : This is a beta version to be tested with the ZeptoOS-V.1.2-beta