PerfExplorer - User's Manual
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PerfExplorer - User's Manual

University of Oregon

Copyright © 2005 University of Oregon Performance Research Lab

(TBA)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Installation and Configuration
2.1. Available configuration options
3. Running PerfExplorer
4. Cluster Analysis
4.1. Dimension Reduction
4.2. Max Number of Clusters
4.3. Performing Cluster Analysis
5. Correlation Analysis
5.1. Dimension Reduction
5.2. Performing Correlation Analysis
6. Charts
6.1. Setting Parameters
6.1.1. Group of Interest
6.1.2. Metric of Interest
6.1.3. Event of Interest
6.1.4. Total Number of Timesteps
6.2. Standard Chart Types
6.2.1. Timesteps Per Second
6.2.2. Relative Efficiency
6.2.3. Relative Efficiency by Event
6.2.4. Relative Efficiency for One Event
6.2.5. Relative Speedup
6.2.6. Relative Speedup by Event
6.2.7. Relative Speedup for One Event
6.2.8. Group % of Total Runtime
6.2.9. Runtime Breakdown
6.3. Phase Chart Types
6.3.1. Relative Efficiency per Phase
6.3.2. Relative Speedup per Phase
6.3.3. Phase Fraction of Total Runtime
7. Custom Charts
8. Visualization
8.1. 3D Visualization
8.2. Data Summary
8.3. Creating a Boxchart
8.4. Creating a Histogram
8.5. Creating a Normal Probability Chart
9. Views
9.1. Creating Views
9.2. Creating Subviews
10. Running PerfExplorer Scripts
10.1. Analysis Components
10.2. Example Script
11. Developing Inference Rules for Scripted Analysis

List of Figures

4.1. Selecting a dimension reduction method
4.2. Entering a minimum threshold for exclusive percentage
4.3. Entering a maximum number of clusters
4.4. Selecting a Metric to Cluster
4.5. Confirm Clustering Options
4.6. Cluster Results
4.7. Cluster Membership Histogram
4.8. Cluster Membership Scatterplot
4.9. Cluster Virtual Topology
4.10. Cluster Average Behavior
5.1. Selecting a dimension reduction method
5.2. Entering a minimum threshold for exclusive percentage
5.3. Selecting a Metric to Cluster
5.4. Correlation Results
5.5. Correlation Example
6.1. Setting Group of Interest
6.2. Setting Metric of Interest
6.3. Setting Event of Interest
6.4. Setting Timesteps
6.5. Timesteps per Second
6.6. Relative Efficiency
6.7. Relative Efficiency by Event
6.8. Relative Efficiency one Event
6.9. Relative Speedup
6.10. Relative Speedup by Event
6.11. Relative Speedup one Event
6.12. Group % of Total Runtime
6.13. Runtime Breakdown
6.14. Relative Efficiency per Phase
6.15. Relative Speedup per Phase
6.16. Phase Fraction of Total Runtime
7.1. The Custom Charts Interface
8.1. 3D Visualization of multivariate data
8.2. Data Summary Window
8.3. Boxchart
8.4. Histogram
8.5. Normal Probability
9.1. Potential scalability data organized as a parametric study
9.2. Selecting a table
9.3. Selecting a column
9.4. Selecting an operator
9.5. Selecting a value
9.6. Entering a name for the view
9.7. The completed view
9.8. Selecting the base view
9.9. Completed sub-views
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