IO Profiling of Applications: MPI Apps

Courtesy Linux Magazine: Top Stories  Tue, 03/16/2010 - 15:09

In the last article we looked at using strace to examine the IO patterns of simple serial applications. In the High Performance Computing (HPC) world, applications use MPI (Message Passing Interface) to create parallel applications.

This time around we discuss how to attack parallel applications using strace.

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