TAU Performance System Training Course

This is an online practical training course of the TAU Performance System code profiling tool.

Objectives

• Installation & Configuration of TAU
• Instrumenting and Running a test programme. In particular:
  • using ​library interposition
  • using source-based PDT instrumentation
  • using paraprof to view results
  • adjusting the TAU runtime environment.
• Advanced TAU usage. In particular:
  • runtime selective instrumentation
  • compile-time selective instrumentation
  • snapshot profiling

Course Structure

1. Installing and configuring TAU on a Linux-based system
2. Instrumenting and Running a test programme
3. Tau Advanced TAU Topics

This course requires the use of a pre-loaded Oracle VirtualBox Linux Virtual Machine (VM), with Ubuntu and TAU installed and configured correctly. This is available for download at https://zenodo.org/record/2705395 (‘Tau_x86_64.ova’).

Instructions on how to use VirtualBox are here.

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