Hardware Performance Monitoring in the Clouds

Project Information

Discipline
Computer Science (401) 
Orientation
Research 
Abstract

This project will investigate whether and how it is possible to implement access to performance monitoring hardware in virtual environments.

Intellectual Merit

Hardware performance monitoring is widely used for performance evaluation and modeling.

Broader Impacts

Enabling PAPI on FutureGrid will enable access from a wide range of performance analysis tools.

Project Contact

Project Lead
Shirley Moore (shirley) 
Project Manager
Shirley Moore (shirley) 
Project Members
Eric Meek, Kiran Kumar Kasichayanula, Vincent Weaver, Adriana Garties, Heike Jagode, Matthew Johnson, John Nelson  

Resource Requirements

Hardware Systems
  • hotel (IBM iDataPlex at U Chicago)
  • india (IBM iDataPlex at IU)
  • sierra (IBM iDataPlex at SDSC)
  • xray (Cray XM5 at IU)
 
Use of FutureGrid

Investigate access to hardware performance counters from virtual environments

Scale of Use

a few VMs for an experiment

Project Timeline

Submitted
10/19/2010 - 15:21 
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