Chapter 1. TAU Tutorial

1.1. Gather information

Before we began installing PDT and TAU you will find it helpful to gather information about your computing environment. TAU and PDT require both a C and C++ compiler. Furthermore this tutorial uses MPICH, if you use a different implementation just find its lib and include directories. Find out the following information about your computing environment before we began:

  • The path to your MPI lib directory

  • The path to your MPI include directory

  • The path of your C compiler (same as the used to compile MPI)

  • The path of your C++ compiler (same as the used to compile MPI)

For the remaining of this tutorial we will assume that your C compiler is xlc, your C++ compiler is xlC.