Profiling and Performance
Profiling is an important task to be considered when a computer code is written. Writing parallel code is less challenging, but making it more efficient on a given parallel architecture is challenging. Moreover, from the programming and programmer’s perspective, we want to know where the code spends most of its time. In particular, we would like to know if the code (given algorithm) is compute bound, memory bound, cache misses, memory leak, proper vectorisation, cache misses, register spilling, or hot spot (time-consuming part in the code). Plenty of tools are available to profile a scientific code (computer code for doing arithmetic computing using processors). However, Here, we will focus few of the widely used tools.
ARM Forge¶
Arm Forge is another standard commercial tool for debugging, profiling, and analysing scientific code on the massively parallel computer architecture. They have a separate toolset for each category with the common environment: DDT for debugging, MAP for profiling, and performance reports for analysis. It also supports the MPI, UPC, CUDA, and OpenMP programming models for a different architecture with different variety of compilers. DDT and MAP will launch the GUI, where we can interactively debug and profile the code. Whereas perf-report
will provide the analysis results in .html
and .txt
files.
Example: ARM Forge
Intel tools¶
Intel Application Snapshot¶
Intel Application Performance Snapshot tool helps to find essential performance factors and the metrics of CPU utilisation, memory access efficiency, and vectorisation. aps -help
will list out profiling metrics options in APS
Example: APS
Intel Inspector¶
Intel Inspector detects and locates the memory, deadlocks, and data races in the code. For example, memory access and memory leaks can be found.
Example: Intel Inspector
Intel Advisor¶
Intel Advisor: a set of collection tools for the metrics and traces that can be used for further tuning in the code. survey
: analyse and explore an idea about where to add efficient vectorisation.
Example: Intel Advisor
Intel VTune¶
- Identifying the time consuming part in the code.
- And also identify the cache misses and latency.
Example: Intel VTune
amplxe-cl
will list out the analysis types and amplxe-cl -hlep
report will list out available reports in VTune.
AMD uProf¶
AMD uProf profiler follows a statistical sampling-based approach to collect profile data to identify the performance bottlenecks in the application.
Example: AMD uProf
Created: April 26, 2023 10:45:49