Tools for Efficient and Accessible NUMA Performance Evaluation

Daniel Robson (School of Computer Science, CECS ANU)

CS HDR MONITORING CompSys Research Group

DATE: 2010-04-08
TIME: 15:15:00 - 15:45:00
LOCATION: Ian Ross Seminar Room
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ABSTRACT:
NUMA architectures are becoming more important, particularly where processor and memory scaling are important. However, due to the added complexity, these systems are increasingly difficult to most optimally utilise.

I aim to create and characterise lightweight performance analysis tools suitable for a NUMA environment. To this end I will present my recent work on the functional NUMA profiling tool, NUMAgrind, capable of analysing the runtime behaviour of applications on user specified NUMA systems.

Our planned work with a timing aware NUMAgrind, and a backend utilising precise performance counters will be described and contrasted with the current profiling framework.
BIO:
PhD student in Computer Science. http://cs.anu.edu.au/user/3934