Scope: An extensible interactive environment for the performance evaluation of parallel systems

Abstract

This paper presents Scope, an environment for the performance analysis of parallel systems based on the analysis of execution traces. Scope's design stresses scalability and easy extensibility. It does encourage interactive and non-linear exploration of the studied system's execution.

We first explain our motivation for developing yet another performance evaluation tool, and see what the strong points of our environment are; we then give a non-technical, high-level overview of the design of some of the most interesting features of Scope and the current realizations. This presentation ends with some perspectives on the developments and experiments that will be done in the immediate future.