[starpu-devel] How to visualize StarPU data?

[Sangeeth Simon <sangeeth.simon@inria.fr>]

Dear Whichever kind soul finds this,

I am working with team CAGIRE where we are trying to employ StarPU on Finite Volume type CFD code for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws. We have had some initial success with our work. On proceeding further, we encountered the following difficulties:

1. The Paje.trace file generated by StarPU fxt is not wholly supported by Vite. By 'wholly supported' I mean that certain features like color-based sorting of tasks/states is not possible. As identified by one of the developers of Vite, '... this is a know issue with StarPU trace. They have
multiple event with the same identifier, and thus it generates problem inside vite. Vite may not be flexible enough to support that, and StarPU does not
respect strictly the paje format, so right now I have no solutions.'

Now, has there been any progress on getting this feature to work? If not, what are the other alternatives for generating a Gantt chart from StarPU data?

2. On the above point, I read a paper recently that introduced the workflow called StarVZ. How reliable is this tool on StarPU traces and how easy is it for a non-expert like me (I come from CFD background and not a Computer Science background) to learn and use? Im willing to put in the effort of learning it provided it is indeed a powerful tool as claimed in the paper.

3. I have also heard about Paraver as a tool kit to visualize time data. Does StarPU fxt output data that can be read by Paraver?

4. Are there any other graphical tools to visualize and analyze the scheduler behaviour (at the task and memory management level) that works for StarPU?

Any help would be appreciated.

Dr. Sangeeth Simon
Post-Doctoral Researcher,
Team CAGIRE, INRIA,
Pau, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France