Re: [starpu-devel] How to visualize StarPU data?

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@inria.fr>]

Vinícius Garcia Pinto, le mer. 17 févr. 2021 20:58:45 -0300, a ecrit:
> On 17/02/2021 20:35, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > >     # Run starvz (assuming you have |starpu_fxt_tool|, |pj_dump|, and
> > >     |rec2csv| in |$PATH|)
> > >     $STARVZ_TOOLS/starvz /foo/path-to-fxt-files
> > Could starvz optionally directly take a paje.trace file instead of an
> > fxt file? fxt files are not portable across versions of starpu.
> It is feasible. Actually, starvz needs more than the paje.trace, we also use
> some .rec files, dag.dot, etc

Yes, sure, I mean you could give it the path to where starpu_fxt_tool
was already run. It could even default to looking at the current path.

> > >     # Done! you should find a starvz.png file at /foo/path-to-fxt-files
> > Great :)
> > 
> > Is there an option to generate a "movie" of the matrix tiles
> > loads/evictions? That would help us with scheduling under memory
> > constraints.
> Hum, this could be a gif
>  I think Lucas Nesi was working on some matrix visualizations sometime ago,
> but not sure if he has tried something like that.

Yes, there are even examples of mp4 files, but it'd be convenient to
have this directly available as a starvz command option.

Samuel