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1. S. Shende, A. D. Malony, J. Cuny, K. Lindlan, P. Beckman and S. Karmesin, Portable Profiling and Tracing for Parallel Scientific Applications using C++, Appears in: Proceedings of SPDT'98: ACM SIGMETRICS Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools, pp. 134-145, Aug. 1998.

   Summary: descibes the TAU portable profiling package and its application to the ACTS Toolkit.

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2. A. Malony and S. Shende, Performance Technology for Complex Parallel and Distributed Systems, Proc. Third Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems, DAPSYS 2000, "Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Concepts to Applications," (Eds. G. Kotsis and P. Kacsuk) Kluwer, Norwell, MA, pp. 37-46, 2000.

   Summary: describes how TAU is applied to a multi-threaded multi-context execution model.

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3. S. Shende, and A. D. Malony, Integration and Application of the TAU Performance System in Parallel Java Environments Proceedings of the Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2001 Conference, June 2001.

   Summary: describes TAU's application to mpiJava, for Parallel Java programs.

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4. S. Shende, A. D. Malony, and R. Ansell-Bell, Instrumentation and Measurement Strategies for Flexible and Portable Empirical Performance Evaluation, Proceedings Tools and Techniques for Performance Evaluation Workshop, PDPTA'01 , C.S.R.E.A., June 2001.

   Summary: describes TAU's instrumentation alternatives including DyninstAPI for parallel programs.

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5. T. Sheehan, A. Malony, S. Shende, A Runtime Monitoring Framework for the TAU Profiling System, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE'99), San Francisco, CA, December 1999.

   Summary: describes the TAU Monitoring Framework.

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6. S. Shende, A. D. Malony and S. Hackstadt, Dynamic Performance Callstack Sampling: Merging TAU and DAQV, Appears in: B. Kågström, J. Dongarra, E. Elmroth and J. Wasniewski (editors). Applied Parallel Computing, 4th International Workshop, PARA'98, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 1541, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998. (c) Springer-Verlag

   Summary: describes how callstacks can be sampled in TAU using DAQV-II.

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7. S. Shende, Profiling and Tracing in Linux, Appears in: Proceedings of the Extreme Linux Workshop #2, USENIX, Monterey CA, June 1999.

   Summary: gives a brief overview of profiling and tracing tools in the context of Linux operating system.

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8. Advanced Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory: TAU: Tuning and Analysis Utilities , Los Alamos National Laboratory Publication LALP-99-205, November 1999.

   Summary: A short four page summary of TAU. Produced as a flyer for Supercomping '99.

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9. S. Shende, J. Cuny, L. Hansen, J. Kundu, S. McLaughry and O. Wolf, Event and State-Based Debugging in TAU:A Prototype, Appears in: Proceedings of SPDT'96: ACM SIGMETRICS Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools, pp. 21-30, May 1996.

   Summary: describes a multilevel debugging strategy that combines both event- and state-based debugging approaches within the TAU program analysis environment for pC++.

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10. K. Windisch, B. Mohr, A. Malony, A Brief Technical Overview of the TAU Tools. Unpublished.

    Summary: A very brief look at the design of the TAU environment.

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11. B. Mohr, A. Malony, J. Cuny, TAU. In G. Wilson, editor, Parallel Programming using C++, M.I.T. Press, 1996.

    Summary: gives the most complete description of the TAU environment.

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12. D. Brown, A. Malony, B. Mohr, Language-based Parallel Program Interaction: the Breezy Approach, Appears in: Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'95),India, December 1995.

    Summary: describes the design and architecture of the breezy tool.

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13. K. Shanmugam, A. Malony, B. Mohr, Speedy: An Integrated Performance Extrapolation Tool for pC++ Programs, Appears in: Proceedings of the Joint Conference PERFORMANCE TOOLS'95 and MMB'95, 20th-22nd September, 1995, Heidelberg, Germany.

    Summary: A new TAU tool, speddy, is described which is a graphical interface to the pC++ performance extrapolation tool ExtraP. Speedy/Extrap allow analyzing the performance of pC++ programs without actually running them on a parallel computer.

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14. A. Malony, B. Mohr, P. Beckman, D. Gannon, Program Analysis and Tuning Tools for a Parallel Object Oriented Language: An Experiment with the TAU System, Appears in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel Scientific Computing, Cape Cod, Maine, October 1994.

    Summary: The use of the TAU tools is illustrated from the perspective of the design and evaluation of a single application in pC++: a bitonic sort module that is used as part of a large N-Body simulation of cosmological evolution.

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15. S. Hackstadt, A. Malony, B. Mohr, Scalable Performance Visualization for Data-Parallel Programs, Proceedings of the Scalable High Performance Computing Conference (SHPCC), Knoxville, Tennessee, May 1994.

    Summary: presents several performance visualization techniques based on the context of data-parallel programming and execution that demonstrate good visual scalability properties.

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16. D. Brown, S. Hackstadt, A. Malony, B. Mohr, Program Analysis Environments for Parallel Language Systems: The TAU Environment, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Environments and Tools For Parallel Scientific Computing, Townsend, Tennessee, pp. 162-171, May 1994.

    Summary: A companion paper to the CONPAR94 article. After an overview about the TAU program analysis tools is given, the barrier breakpoint debugger, breezy, is discussed.

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17. B. Mohr, D. Brown, A. Malony, TAU: A Portable Parallel Program Analysis Environment for pC++, Proceedings of CONPAR 94 - VAPP VI, University of Linz, Austria, LNCS 854, pp. 29-40, September 1994.

    Summary: describes the TAU program analysis tools: fancy (file and class browser), cagey (callgraph browser), classy (class hierarchy browser), racy (profile data browser), and easy (event and state viewer)

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18. A. Malony, B. Mohr, P. Beckman, D. Gannon, S. Yang, F. Bodin, Performance Analysis of pC++: A Portable Data-Parallel Programming System for Scalable Parallel Computers, Proceedings of the 8th International Parallel Processing Symbosium (IPPS), Cancún, Mexico, pp. 75-85, April 1994.

    Summary: describes profiling and tracing capabilities of pC++ and gives detailed results of speedup measurements for four benchmark programs

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19. F. Bodin, P. Beckman, D. Gannon, S. Yang, S. Kesavan, A. Malony, B. Mohr, Implementing a Parallel C++ Runtime System for Scalable Parallel Systems, Proceedings of the 1993 Supercomputing Conference, Portland, Oregon, pp. 588-597, November 1993.

    Summary: gives an overview of pC++, a parallel version of C++ and the implemementation of its runtime system on a variety of distributed and shared memory machines

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20. B. Mohr, Standardization of Event Traces Considered Harmful or Is an Implementation of Object-Independent Event Trace Monitoring and Analysis Systems Possible?, Proceedings of the CNRS-NSF Workshop on Environments and Tools For Parallel Scientific Computing, St. Hilaire du Touvet, France, Elsevier, Advances in Parallel Computing, Vol. 6, pp. 103-124, September 1992.

    Summary: describes how to write event trace analysis tools in a way that they are able to read and analyze traces of arbitrary origin

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