SCOPE - AN EXTENSIBLE INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PARALLEL SYSTEMS

This paper presents Scope, an environment for the performance analysis of parallel systems based on the analysis of execution traces. Scope' s design stresses scalability and easy extensibility. It does encourag e interactive and non-linear exploration of the studied system's execu tion. We first explain our motivation for developing yet another perfo rmance evaluation tool, and see what the strong points of our environm ent are; we then give a non-technical, high-level overview of the desi gn of some of the most interesting features of Scope and the current r ealizations. This presentation ends with some perspectives on the deve lopments and experiments that will be done in the immediate future.