ZEN: a directive based experiment specification language for performance and parameter studies of parallel scientific applications. (11th November 2005)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Prodan, Radu; Fahringer, Thomas
• Is Part Of: International journal of high performance computing and networking. Volume 3:Number 2/3(2005)
• Page Start: 103
• Page End: 121
• Publication Date: 2005-11-11
• Subjects: directive based language -- experiment management -- parameter study -- performance analysis -- parallel processing -- high performance computing -- science; High performance computing -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; High performance computing; Periodicals; 004.05
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-0562

Abstract

Currently there exists little support to specify and control the execution of a large number of experiments required for performance oriented development of scientific applications. We have developed a new directive based language called ZEN for the specification of wide sets of synthetic experiments in the context of large scale parameter and performance studies of parallel applications. We report experimental results for the performance analysis of an ocean simulation application and for the parameter study of a computational finance code.