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Indiana University will host a workshop and hands-on tutorial on Vampir, a tool designed to conduct performance analysis and diagnose problems in serial and parallel supercomputing applications. The tool will be a fundamental component of FutureGrid, a collaborative grid and cloud computing test-bed funded by the National Science Foundation that is being developed under the leadership of Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) Digital Science Center.

Vampir was developed by the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at the Technische Universität in Dresden, Germany, a close collaborative partner with PTI in the area of high performance computing research. The workshop is being jointly presented by members of ZIH and IU Research Technologies High Performance Applications (HPA), a group within PTI and University Information Technology Services. Scientists and systems administrators who work with high performance computing systems will be interested in attending this free educational event.

“Vampir is a very powerful tool for analyzing and improving the performance and efficiency of high performance computing systems. Workshop participants will get an introduction to creating performance traces of applications and visualizing them. We will also highlight how processor specific information can be recorded and used to diagnose performance problems in applications.” said HPA Manager Robert Henschel. HPA is a division within University Information Technology Services (UITS) and the Pervasive Technology Institute at IU. “This workshop will be a rare opportunity for scientists and technologists in the U.S. to learn about Vampir directly from individuals who helped to develop it. We are pleased that our colleagues from Dresden will be helping to lead the workshop.”

The workshop, entitled “Performance Analysis Using the Vampir Toolchain” will take place April 21, 2010 at the IU Innovation Center located at 2719 E. 10^th Street on the Bloomington campus. The morning classroom session begins at 9 am and is followed by a hands-on afternoon tutorial at the nearby Wrubel Computing Center that will conclude at 6 pm. The workshop is open to researchers and technologists both within IU and from other institutions. Seating is limited, so interested individuals are encouraged to register early. For more information and registration instructions, visit:  http://iu-pti.org/hpa/vampir-workshop-2010.

Related links:

Vampir Web site http://www.vampir.eu/

Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University www.pti.iu.edu

University Information Technology Services http://uits.iu.edu/ 

Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) http://tu-dresden.de/zih

FutureGrid project Web site http://www.futuregrid.org/