Re: [PerfSuite-users] PSPMPI Info

[Rick K. <rk...@nc...>]

> Hi All,
> 
> I am planning to use PSPMPI to profile some MPI application and have 
> downloaded 
> http://perfsuite.ncsa.uiuc.edu/download/perfsuite-0.6.1.tar.bz2.
> 
> I am not able to find libpspmpi (the other companions, libperfsuite and 
> libpshwpc).
> 
> It would be nice if someone could tell me how to obtain libpspmpi
> 
> thanks and regards
> santhosh
> 

Santhosh,

That's an understandable confusion, based on the material posted at the
perfsuite.ncsa web site.  There is some background information about
development and release plans in a message from the perfsuite bugs list
here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6310500&forum_id=42219

The short story is that versions 0.6.x focus on hardware counting and 
profiling, not MPI (although PerfSuite does have a PMPI-based interface 
for performance measurement, but that for hardware counters still, not 
communication profiling).  PSPMPI has existed for a while now, but needs 
some work, testing, documentation before it can be released.  In the meantime,
I would recommend a library called mpiP from LLNL and ORNL, which 
has some intersection in functionality with PSPMPI.  You can find a URL 
here:

http://perfsuite.ncsa.uiuc.edu/perftools/

There will be a 0.6.2 alpha release of PerfSuite very shortly, but that 
will also continue on the hardware counter focus.

Sorry for the confusion,

Rick