Real-Time Statistical Clustering for Event Trace Reduction
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The International Journal of Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing
- Vol. 11 (2) , 144-159
- https://doi.org/10.1177/109434209701100207
Abstract
Event tracing provides the detailed data needed to under stand the dynamics of interactions among application resource demands and system responses. However, cap turing the large volume of dynamic performance data inherent in detailed tracing can perturb program execution and stress secondary storage systems. Moreover, it can overwhelm a user or performance analyst with potentially irrelevant data. Using the Pablo performance environ ment's support for real-time data analysis, we show that dynamic statistical data clustering can dramatically reduce the volume of captured performance data by identifying and recording event traces only from representative proc essors. In turn, this makes possible low overhead, interac tive visualization, and performance tuning.Keywords
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