NDLI: A Structured Approach to Instrumentation System Development and Evaluation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Waheed, A. Rover, D.T.
Copyright Year	1995
Description	Author affiliation: Michigan State University (Waheed, A.)
Abstract	Software instrumentation is a widely used technique for parallel program performance evaluation, debugging, steering, and visualization. With increasing sophistication of parallel tool development technologies and broadening of application areas where these tools are being used, runtime data collection and management activities are growing in importance; we use the term instrumentation system (IS) to refer to components that support these activities in state-of-the-art parallel tool environments. An IS consists of Local Instrumentation Servers, an Instrumentation System Manager, and a Transfer Protocol. The overheads and perturbation effects attributed to an IS must be accounted for to ensure correct and efficient representation of program behavior, especially for on-line and real-time environments. Moreover, an IS is a key facilitator of integration of tools in an environment. In this paper, we define the primary components of an IS and their roles in an integrated environment, and classify ISs according to selected features. We introduce a structured approach to plan, design, model, evaluate, implement, and validate an IS. The approach provides a means to formally address domain-specific requirements. The modeling and evaluation processes are illustrated in the context of three distinctive IS case studies for PICL, Paradyn, and Vista. Valuable feedback on performance effects of IS parameters and policies can assist developers in making design decisions early in the software development cycle. Additionally, use of structured software engineering methods can support the mapping of an abstract IS model to an implementation of the IS.
Starting Page	30
Ending Page	30
File Size	207320
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897918169
DOI	10.1109/SUPERC.1995.242930
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1995-12-08
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Instruments Software debugging Software performance Data visualization Application software Runtime environment Environmental management Technology management Protocols Context modeling performance analysis instrumentation systems software monitoring parallel programming tools parallel processing modeling perturbation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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