SGI UV System Analysis

Target Audience:

• System administrators
• System analysts
• System programmers
• Advanced application programmers

Prerequisites:

• Basic Linux knowledge

Topics Covered:

• System analysis methology
• Hardware and software inventory
• Establish performance metrics
• Live monitoring tools, sar and Performance Co-Pilot
• Performance evaluation
• Establish a baseline
• Profile applications PAPI, Perfsuite
• Multithreaded applications - OpenMP, MPI, pthreads
• Application memory
• Numa tools - dplace, cpusets
• System time

Objectives:  Upon completion of this course the student should be able to:

• Use hwinfo and inventory commands to determine hardware
• Use chkconfig, sysctl, rpm and xfs tools to determine software configuration
• Use a methodology to determine metrics needed
• Instrument the system by using Performance Co-Pilot, sar, and accounting
• Use Performance Co-Pilot and accounting data to obtain a baseline performance
• Explain performance evaluation techniques
• Use live monitoring tools to monitor the system
• Use Intel compiler options to improve code
• Use PAPI and Perfsuite to profile the application
• Use Intel compiler OpenMP to multithread an application
• Use the SGI Message Passing Toolkit and mpirun for MPI
• Profile with ps and dlook and explain application memory use
• Profile with strace and explain application system time