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SPLASH 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada

At the beginning of computer science memory management was a big issue with applications requiring to fit in the small amount of available memory (close to a few kilobytes). Hardware evolution has made this resource cheap for the past few years. Available memory is now close to a few hundred gigabytes. But the current evolution in the multi/many-core era tends to make some issues come back. The memory available tends not to follow the increasing number of cores making the memory resource per thread rare again. We also encounter new issues with the requirement to manage a bigger space with many more allocated objects. This new aspect increases the probability of memory leaks. It also increases the probability of memory management performance issues. Hence, with MALT we provide a tool to track the memory allocated by an application. We then map the extracted metrics onto the source code, just like kcachegrind does with valgrind for the CPU performance. Compared to most available tools, MALT can also be used to track potential performance losses due to bad allocation patterns (too many allocations, small allocations, recycling large allocations, short-lived allocations…) thanks to the various metrics it exposes to the user. This paper will detail the metrics extracted by MALT and how we present them to the user thanks to a nice web based graphical interface which is missing with most of the available Linux tools.

Mon 23 Oct

Displayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change

10:30 - 12:00
Session2: Software performance engineeringSEPS at Brighton
Chair(s): Pablo de Oliveira Castro University of Versailles, France
10:30
30m
Talk
MALT, A Malloc Tracker
SEPS
Sébastien Valat CERN, Andres S. Charif-Rubial Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, William Jalby Université de Versalles
11:00
30m
Talk
Performance Analysis and Optimization of the RAMPAGE Metal Alloy Potential Generation Software
SEPS
Philip C. Roth Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Hongzhang Shan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, David Riegner The Ohio State University, Nikolas Antolin The Ohio State University, Sarat Sreepathi Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Leonid Oliker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Samuel Williams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Shirley Moore Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Wolfgang Windl The Ohio State University
11:30
30m
Talk
The Influence of HPCToolkit and Score-P on Hardware Performance Counters
SEPS
Jan-Patrick Lehr Graduate School of Computational Engineering, TU Darmstadt, Christian Iwainsky Competence Center for High-Performance Computing in Hessian, TU Darmstadt, Christian Bischof Scientific Computing, TU Darmstadt