Kickstarting work on software engineering toolset(s)

[Giulio Eulisse]

Dear all,

as discussed in Naples we want to kickstart a working group about improving our software engineering toolset(s), in particular concerning code profilers and static analysers.

For this reason we will have a meeting next week trying to gather a few ideas and decide a way forward:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/735132/

I also suggest anyone who wants to participate to subscribe to the HSF Technical Forum group, where we will try to keep further discussions:

hsf-tec...@googlegroups.com

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Ciao,

Giulio, Martin & Graeme

[Graeme A Stewart]

A wee reminder of our meeting this afternoon at 15h CERN time.

Cheers

Giulio, Martin & Graeme

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[Stewart Martin-Haugh]

Hi,

I mentioned during the meeting that I'd written some resources on optimisation, which I uploaded to GitHub:

https://github.com/StewMH/OptimisationWorkshop/blob/master/Cardiff26Oct2017.pdf

Graeme also mentioned Hadrien Grasland's excellent perf resource:

https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCb/CodeAnalysisTools#CPU_assisted_performance_analysi

It would be good to collect similar resources somewhere. This may be more for the training WG.

Cheers,

Stewart

On Thursday, 14 June 2018 11:51:58 UTC+1, Graeme Stewart wrote:

A wee reminder of our meeting this afternoon at 15h CERN time.

Cheers

Giulio, Martin & Graeme

On 8 Jun 2018, at 12:22, Giulio Eulisse <giulio....@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

as discussed in Naples we want to kickstart a working group about improving our software engineering toolset(s), in particular concerning code profilers and static analysers.

For this reason we will have a meeting next week trying to gather a few ideas and decide a way forward:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/735132/

I also suggest anyone who wants to participate to subscribe to the HSF Technical Forum group, where we will try to keep further discussions:

hsf-tech-forum@googlegroups.com

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Ciao,

Giulio, Martin & Graeme

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[Giulio Eulisse]

Ciao,

as we said in the meeting, that's a good idea, we just need to find some place where to put the links. I will try to follow this up.

On my side, beside the contribution at FOSDEM about igprof I already mentioned:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/igprof_the_ignominous_profiler/

I also have a bit of introductory material I prepared for a tutorial I made at UiB and later at CERN for ALICE:

http://ktf.github.io/decks/alice15-tools-lecture.pdf

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Giulio

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[Vincenzo Innocente]

perf comes with its own online tutorials and support
https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
including Roberto's good old slides

I use andy keen's wrapper ocperf
https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools
http://halobates.de/blog/p/245
well documented as well
never used its plotting features though

nvprof is a "commercial" professional tool
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/profiler-users-guide/index.html
so the amount of resourses is close to infinite...

v.

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[Giulio Eulisse]

Ciao,

Yes, I agree the amount of resources is close to infinite. That's why during the meeting I was saying that is not lack of documentation the problem, we just need a few to kickstart people. Admittedly, googling for "software profiling tools" is already a very good starting point.

What is needed is simply to raise awareness a bit so that people start to think, to read about, and use those tools.

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Giulio