[ptp-dev] TAU Plugin Status

[wspear <wspear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

Thanks to Beth's diligent efforts the current set of performance analysis plugins are now up on CVS.  The improvements and various bugfixes are listed over on the eclipsezilla entry (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=168292).  Quite a lot has changed since the last CVS commit but one of the most exciting new features is the ability for the user to specify his or her own performance tools, weather they are compiler wrappers, execution utilities of performance data analysis tools, for use in a basic performance analysis work-flow.

I intend to have an updated entry on the PTP wiki soon detailing the new functionality.  The current entry (http://wiki.eclipse.org/PTP/designs/perf_tools_framework/TAU
) remains accurate with respect to the TAU-specific functionality.

There is still a lot to be done and things are being added and adjusted fairly quickly.  The next patch should include better support for specifying the output and analysis of performance data.  Additional features in the works include support for database-enabled storage and display of profile data types in addition to TAU's, support for  tool-specific environment variable configuration, EFS compatibility and user defined tool configuration tabs in the launch configuration manager.

If anyone wants help installing and using the plugins please let me know.  Questions, comments or feedback on the performance plugins are encouraged.  Development is quite flexible at this point so this is a good time to provide suggestions.

Regards,
Wyatt Spear