SMAIT, CIAT, TDAT, and CCAT

• The report HPL-96-157 describes the implementation of the early version of SMAIT, CIAT, and TDAT, their usage, and the format of their output files. The report HPL-97-24 uses these tools to characterize a shared-memory implementation of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB).

• Gheith Abandah's Ph.D. thesis describes the new version of these tools.

• Brief description of the analysis methodology

• Instructions for using SMAIT, CIAT, and TDAT

• Update for SMAIT trace format

• Example NQS script file that uses CIAT

• A technical report that describes the CIAT approach and analyzes six benchmarks from the NAS Parallel Benchmarks and the Stanford SPLASH-2 application suites is also available. A shorter version of this report has appeared as an IPPS'98 paper.

• CDAT was used to conduct a comparative study among three CC-NUMA systems. The results of this comparison are summarized in an HPCS'98 paper.

• CCAT was used to evaluate some SGI/Origin 2000 design enhancements for communication intensive applications. The results of this evaluation are summarized in a PACT'98 paper.

DSM-MB

The microbenchmarks for characterizing the memory and communication performance of a distributed shared memory system are described in a TPDS article, ISCA'98 paper, and Abandah's Ph.D. thesis.

HP/Convex SPP1600

A Beginner's Guide for using the SPP1600 is available at CPC's Convex page.

The PinPoint online documentation makes several Convex manuals available online. The Exemplar Programming manual, available through PinPoint, is a good reference to learn parallel programming for the SPP1600. PinPoint can be started on a CAEN HP workstation by typing:

/nfs/down/l/lasc/convex-support/pinpoint/bin/pinpoint