Introduction - 4th International Workshop on Visual
Performance Analytics – VPA 2017
Author/Presenters
Event Type
Workshop
Data Analytics
Performance
Visualization
TimeFriday, November 17th8:30am -
8:35am
Location301
DescriptionThe last few decades have witnessed an unprecedented
growth in the computational power of supercomputers.
Exploiting the full capabilities of these machines is
becoming exponentially more difficult with each new
generation of hardware. To help understand and optimize
the behavior of parallel applications running on such
hardware, the performance analysis community has created
a wide range of tools and APIs to collect performance
data, such as hardware counters, communication traces,
and network traffic data. This success has created a new
challenge: the resulting data is far too large and too
complex to be analyzed in a straightforward manner.
Therefore, new automatic analysis and visualization
approaches must be developed to enable application
developers to intuitively understand the multiple,
interdependent effects that their algorithmic choices
have on application performance. This workshop intends
to bring together researchers from the fields of
performance analysis and visualization for a continued
exchange of new approaches to leverage both areas to
analyze and optimize large-scale parallel
applications.
