Performance Analysis with Vampir
DKRZ Tutorial 2013
5 – 7 August, Hamburg
Matthias Weber, Frank Winkler,
Andreas Knüpfer
ZIH, Technische Universität Dresden
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Outline
Part I: Welcome to the Vampir Tool Suite
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Mission
Event Trace Visualization
Vampir & VampirServer
Vampir Performance Charts
Part II: Vampir Hands-on
– Visualizing and analyzing NPB-MZ-MPI / BT
Part III: Summary and Conclusion
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Mission
• Visualization of dynamics
of complex parallel processes
• Requires two components
– Monitor/Collector (Score-P)
– Charts/Browser (Vampir)
Typical questions that Vampir helps to answer:
– What happens in my application execution during a given time in
a given process or thread?
– How do the communication patterns of my application execute
on a real system?
– Are there any imbalances in computation, I/O or memory usage
and how do they affect the parallel execution of my application?
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Event Trace Visualization with Vampir
• Alternative and supplement to automatic analysis
• Show dynamic run-time behavior graphically at any level
of detail
• Provide statistics and performance metrics
Timeline charts
– Show application activities and
communication along a time axis
Summary charts
– Provide quantitative results for the
currently selected time interval
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Vampir – Visualization Modes (1)
• Directly on front end or local machine
% vampir
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Multi-Core
Program
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Vampir 8
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Small/Medium sized trace
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Trace
File
(OTF2)
Thread parallel
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Vampir – Visualization Modes (2)
• On local machine with remote VampirServer
% vampirserver start –n 12
% vampir
VampirServer
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Score-P
LAN/WAN
Trace
File
(OTF2)
Large Trace File
(stays on remote machine)
MPI parallel application
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Usage Order of the Vampir Performance
Analysis Toolset
1. Instrument your application with Score-P
2. Run your application with an appropriate test set
3. Analyze your trace file with Vampir
– Small trace files can be analyzed on your local workstation
1. Start your local Vampir
2. Load trace file from your local disk
– Large trace files should be stored on the HPC file system
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Start VampirServer on your HPC system
Start your local Vampir
Connect local Vampir with the VampirServer on the HPC system
Load trace file from the HPC file system
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Main Displays of Vampir
• Timeline Charts:
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Master Timeline
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Process Timeline
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Counter Data Timeline
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Performance Radar
• Summary Charts:
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Function Summary
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Message Summary
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Process Summary
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Communication Matrix View
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Vampir Hands-on
Visualizing and Analyzing NPB-MZ-MPI / BT
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
% vampir scorep_bt-mz_B_4x4_trace/traces.otf2
Navigation Toolbar
Function Summary
Function Legend
Master Timeline
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Master Timeline
Detailed information about
functions, communication
and synchronization events
for collection of processes.
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Process Timeline
Detailed information about
different levels of function
calls in a stacked bar chart
for an individual process.
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Typical Program Phases
Initialisation Phase
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Computation Phase
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Counter Data Timeline
Detailed counter
information over time for
an individual process.
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Performance Radar
Detailed counter
information over time for
a collection of processes.
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Zoom in: Inititialization Phase
Context View:
Detailed information about
function “initialize_”.
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Feature: Find Function
Execution of function
“initialize_” results in
higher page fault
rates.
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Vampir: NPB-MZ-MPI / BT source snippet
#include "scorep/SCOREP_User.h"
c-------------------------------------------------------------------c
initialize data
c-------------------------------------------------------------------call timer_start(1)
...
c-------------------------------------------------------------------c
start the benchmark time step loop
c-------------------------------------------------------------------do step = 1, niter
SCOREP_USER_REGION_BEGIN( my_region_handle,
"iteration",
SCOREP_USER_REGION_TYPE_COMMON )
...
call exch_qbc(...)
do iz = 1, proc_num_zones
call adi(...)
end do
SCOREP_USER_REGION_END( my_region_handle )
end do
call timer_stop(1)
c-------------------------------------------------------------------c
perform verification and print results
c-------------------------------------------------------------------...
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Computation Phase
Computation phase
results in higher
floating point
operations.
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Zoom in: Computation Phase
MPI communication
results in lower
floating point
operations.
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Zoom in: Finalization Phase
“Early reduce”
bottleneck.
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Process Summary
Function Summary:
Overview of the
accumulated information
across all functions and for
a collection of processes.
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Process Summary:
Overview of the
accumulated information
across all functions and for
every process independently.
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Vampir: Visualization of the NPB-MZ-MPI / BT trace
Process Summary
Find groups of similar
processes and
threads by using
summarized function
information.
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Summary and Conclusion
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Summary
• Vampir & VampirServer
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Interactive trace visualization and analysis
Intuitive browsing and zooming
Scalable to large trace data sizes (20 TByte)
Scalable to high parallelism (200000 processes)
• Vampir for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X
• Note: Vampir does neither solve your problems
automatically nor point you directly at them. Yet, it
does give you FULL insight into the execution of
your application.
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Conclusion
• Performance analysis very important in HPC
• Use performance analysis tools for profiling and tracing
• Do not spend effort in DIY solutions,
e.g. like printf-debugging
• Use tracing tools with some precautions
– overhead
– data volume
• Let us know about problems and about feature wishes:
vampirsupport@zih.tu-dresden.de
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Vampir is available at http://www.vampir.eu
Get support via vampirsupport@zih.tu-dresden.de
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