BlueGene
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IBM Blue Gene/L
A collection of information on how to use TAU with IBM Blue Gene/L systems.
Building PDT
Configure and build PDT:
./configure make clean install
Building TAU for the back-end
./configure -arch=bgl -mpi -pdt=<dir> -pdt_c++=g++ make clean install
Building front-end tools
The binaries in <taudir>/bgl/bin are not usable on the front-end, to build tools for the front-end, use:
./configure make clean install
This will build and install tools (such as Paraprof, pprof) in the <taudir>/ppc64/bin directory.
Fast BGL Timers
BlueGene systems have a special clock cycle counter that can be used for low overhead timings, to use it with TAU configure with
-BGLTIMERS