Paper Info
Title
Towards a common metamodel for traces of high performance computing systems to enable software analysis tasks
Abstract
There exist several tools for analyzing traces generated from HPC (High Performance Computing) applications, used by software engineers for debugging and other maintenance tasks. These tools, however, use different formats to represent HPC traces, which hinders interoperability and data exchange. At the present time, there is no standard metamodel that represents HPC trace concepts and their relations. In this paper, we argue that the lack of a common metamodel is a serious impediment for effective analysis for this class of software systems. We aim to fill this void by presenting MTF2 (MPI Trace Format2)-a metamodel for representing HPC system traces. MTF2 is built with expressiveness and scalability in mind. Scalability, an important requirement when working with large traces, is achieved by adopting graph theory concepts to compact large traces. We show through a case study that a trace represented in MTF2 can be in average 49% smaller than a trace represented in a format that does not consider compaction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/SANER.2015.7081821
Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
graph theory,message passing,parallel processing,program diagnostics,hpc applications,hpc system trace representation,hpc trace representation,mpi trace format2,mtf2,data exchange,high performance computing system,interoperability,metamodel,software analysis,software system,trace analysis,hpc trace analysis,high performance computing systems,inter-process communication traces,metamodeling
Data exchange,Software analysis pattern,Computer science,Interoperability,Software system,Software,Metamodeling,Debugging,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luay Alawneh1709.18
Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj258753.97
Jameleddine Hassine312217.35