Gprof Tutorial

HPC.NRW
Associated Pages
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HPC Courses
1.	Introduction to Linux in HPC
2.	Gprof Tutorial
3.	OpenMP in Small Bites

Gprof is a free and easy-to-use profiler.

Introduction

Introduce tutorial structure, topic and speaker

Gprof Introduction + Pascal Example

Provide everything to run and make use of gprof.

Quiz

1. What lanuages can gprof profile?

	Python, Java, Julia
	C/C++, Fortran, Pascal
	Haskell, Cobol, Brainfuck

2. How does gprof profiles an application?

	By instrumenting the application during compilation.
	Through static analysis of the source code

3. What compiler flag is used to instrument the application?

	-pg
	-pig
	--profile

How should the parameters be when running the instrumented application?

	Simple and understandable
	Representative of the usual workload
	Covering edge cases

C++ + Fortran Examples

Show gprof in real world examples and introduce call graph.