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3 The VAMPIR Environment

Performance analysis and program optimization are often based on different categories of system views (Fig. 2, [Mue95]):

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Figure 2: The VAMPIR visualization options

Each category is supported by the VAMPIR environment; the current prototype can generate traces on the Intel iPSC/860, Intel Paragon and CRAY T3D systems, whereas the product version will work for any standard-compliant MPI implementation.

For user convenience, VAMPIR provides a configuration file where user preferences (color, layout, fonts etc.) are stored between runs. This file enables the tool to come up with the exact same settings of a previous session, and different configurations may be saved and loaded at will. A detailed description of all VAMPIR features can be found in [Arn93, ArRo95, Mue95].

VAMPIR is implemented in ANSI C and uses the OSF/Motif libraries. The current implementation already supports a variety of different hardware platforms (IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc, DEC MIPS computers (Ultrix), DEC Alpha, HP, and Silicon Graphics).



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Tue May 28 14:38:25 PST 1996