TY - GEN
T1 - Runtime function instrumentation with EZTrace
AU - Aulagnon, Charles
AU - Martin-Guillerez, Damien
AU - Rué, François
AU - Trahay, François
PY - 2013/3/5
Y1 - 2013/3/5
N2 - High-performance computing relies more and more on complex hardware: multiple computers, multi-processor computer, multi-core processing unit, multiple general purpose graphical processing units... To efficiently exploit the power of current computing architectures, modern applications rely on a high level of parallelism. To analyze and optimize these applications, tracking the software behavior with minimum impact on the software is necessary to extract time consumption of code sections as well as resource usage (e.g., network messages). In this paper, we present a method for instrumenting functions in a binary application. This method permits to collect data at the entry and the exit of a function, allowing to analyze the execution of an application. We implemented this mechanism in EZTrace and the evaluation shows a significant improvement compared to other tools for instrumentation.
AB - High-performance computing relies more and more on complex hardware: multiple computers, multi-processor computer, multi-core processing unit, multiple general purpose graphical processing units... To efficiently exploit the power of current computing architectures, modern applications rely on a high level of parallelism. To analyze and optimize these applications, tracking the software behavior with minimum impact on the software is necessary to extract time consumption of code sections as well as resource usage (e.g., network messages). In this paper, we present a method for instrumenting functions in a binary application. This method permits to collect data at the entry and the exit of a function, allowing to analyze the execution of an application. We implemented this mechanism in EZTrace and the evaluation shows a significant improvement compared to other tools for instrumentation.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-36949-0_45
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-36949-0_45
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874430742
SN - 9783642369483
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 395
EP - 403
BT - Euro-Par 2012 - Parallel Processing Workshops
T2 - Parallel Processing Workshops, Euro-Par 2012: BDMC 2012, CGWS 2012, HeteroPar 2012, HiBB 2012, OMHI 2012, Paraphrase 2012, PROPER 2012, Resilience 2012, UCHPC 2012, VHPC 2012
Y2 - 27 August 2012 through 31 August 2012
ER -