Manuals

Here you can download the Paraver and Dimemas tutorials and manuals:

Tutorial Guidelines

• Tutorial on HydroC analysis (MPI, Dimemas, CUDA).  NEW!!! This tutorial can be loaded on  Paraver versions newer 4.3.0  to follow the steps within the tool.
• Paraver introduction (MPI) Start here to familiarice with Paraver basic commands and the first steps of a performance analysis.
• Methodology This tutorial shows some examples of the analysis that can be done using the provided configuration files.
• Dimemas introduction The basic steps to learn how to configure and run the Dimemas simulator and to start looking at the results.
• Trace preparation Look at this tutorial to select a representative region for a large trace that cannot be loaded into memory.
• Trace alignment If you identify some unexpected unnalignement or backwards communications, use this tutorial to learn how to correct shifts between processors.

Tutorial slides

• Introduction
• Core tools: Paraver , Dimemas, Extrae
• Advanced features: Tools Scalability, Clustering, Sampling

Methodology of Analysis

• MPI+OpenMP Performance Analysis Tips (html)

(Old) Paraver Manuals

• Paraver Reference Manual (draft version 3.1) PDF format (2.36MB)
• Paraver Tutorial (version 2.1) PDF format (4.3MB)
• Trace Generation Manual PDF format (1.4MB)

Instrumentation packages

• Extrae User's Guide PDF format (340 KB)

Dimemas

• Dimemas Tutorial Manual (slides) PDF format (7.7KB)