Cilkprof : a scalability profiler for Cilk programs
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Author(s)
Xing, Kerry (Kerry K.)
Advisor(s)
Charles E. Leiserson and I-Ting Angelina Lee.
Date Issued
2014
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This thesis describes the design and implementation of Cilkprof, a profiling tool that helps programmers to diagnose scalability problems in their Cilk programs. Cilkprof provides in-depth information about the scalability of programs, without adding excessive overhead. Cilkprof's output can be used to find scalability bottlenecks in the user's code. Cilkprof makes profiling measurements at the fork and join points of computations, which typically limits the amount of overhead incurred by the profiler. In addition, despite recording in-depth information, Cilkprof does not generate large log files that are typical of trace-based profilers. In addition, the profiling algorithm only incurs constant amortized overhead per measurement. CilkProf slows down the serial program execution by a factor of about 10 in the common case, on a well-coarsened parallel program. The slowdown is reasonable for the amount of information gained from the profiling. Finally, the approach taken by Cilkprof enables the creation of an API, which can allow users to specify their own profiling code, without having to change the Cilk runtime.
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-53).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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