Operation and Use, Volume 2

Chapter 3. Analyzing program performance using the PE Benchmarker toolset

This chapter describes the tools and utilities of the PE Benchmarker toolset. You can use these tools to collect and analyze program event trace or hardware performance data. Specifically, this chapter describes:

• the Performance Collection Tool (PCT) for collecting MPI traces or hardware/operating system profiles.
• a set of utilities for converting AIX trace records output by the PCT into a format that can be analyzed within third party tools or other utilities that IBM supplies.
• the Profile Visualization Tool (PVT) for analyzing hardware/operating system profiles collected by the PCT.