- Book Information
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The Prism Environment
- Chapter 2 Using Prism
- Before Entering Prism
- Entering Prism
- Executing Commands Within Prism
- Using the Menu Bar
- Using the Source Window
- Using the Line-Number Region
- Using the Command Window
- Writing Expressions in Prism
- Using Fortran 90 Generic Procedures
- Issuing Solaris Commands
- Leaving Prism
- Chapter 3 Loading and Executing a Program
- Loading a Program
- Associating a Core File With a Loaded Program
- Attaching to a Running Process
- Executing a Program in Scalar Prism
- Executing a Program in MP Prism
- Using Psets in MP Prism
- Using MP Prism With Sun MPI Client/Server Programs
- Choosing the Current File and Function
- Creating a Directory List for Source Files
- Chapter 4 Debugging a Program
- Overview of Events
- Using the Event Table
- Setting Breakpoints
- Tracing Program Execution
- Displaying and Moving Through the Call Stack
- Combining Debug and Optimization Options
- Examining the Contents of Memory and Registers
- Chapter 5 Visualizing Data
- Overview of Data Visualization
- Choosing the Data to Visualize
- Working With Visualizers
- Saving, Restoring, and Comparing Visualizers
- Visualizing Layouts of Parallel Objects
- Visualizing Structures
- Printing the Type of a Variable
- Modifying Data
- Changing the Radix of Data
- Printing the Names and Values of Local Variables
- Printing Pointers as Array Sections
- Visualizing Multiple Processes in MP Prism
- Visualizing MPI Message Queues
- Displaying and Visualizing Sun S3L Arrays
- Chapter 6 Obtaining MPI Performance Data
- Overview of MPI Performance Analysis
- Getting Started
- Requirements of MPI Performance Analysis
- Collecting Performance Data
- Displaying Performance Data
- Using the tnfview Timeline Window
- Using the tnfview Graph Window
- Creating an Event Dataset
- Creating a New Interval
- Editing Interval Definitions
- Collecting an Interval Dataset
- Selecting a Dataset to Plot
- Adjusting the Scatter Plot Graph Axes
- Updating the Graph
- Selecting a Point in the Scatter Plot
- Opening the Table View
- Opening the Histogram View
- Specifying the Metric of the Histogram
- Performance Analysis Tips
- Controlling the Scale of TNF Data Collection
- Additional Information
- Chapter 7 Applying Prism's MPI Performance Analysis
- Chapter 8 Editing and Compiling Programs
- Chapter 9 Getting Help
- Chapter 10 Customizing Prism
- Customizing Different Versions of Prism
- Using the Tear-Off Region
- Creating Aliases for Commands and Variables
- Using the Customize Utility
- Changing Prism Defaults
- Adding Prism Resources to the Resource Database
- Specifying the Editor and Its Placement
- Specifying the Window for Error Messages
- Changing the Text Fonts
- Changing Colors
- Changing Keyboard Translations
- Changing the Xterm to Use for I/O
- Changing the Way Prism Signals an Error
- Changing the make Utility to Use
- Changing How Prism Treats Stale Data in Visualizers
- Specifying the Browser to Use for Displaying Help
- Changing the Way Prism Handles Fortran 90 Generic Procedures
- Initializing Prism
- Chapter 11 Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Tips
- Launch Prism Without Invoking bsub or mprun
- Avoid Using the -xs Compiler Option
- Keep .o Files after Compilation
- Expect a Pause After Issuing the First run Command
- Monitor Your Use of Color Resources
- Expect Only Stopped Processes to Be Displayed in the Where Graph
- Use MP Prism to Load MPI Programs
- Verify That /opt/SUNWlsf/bin Is in Your PATH
- Use the -32 Option to Load 32-Bit Binaries For Performance Analysis on Solaris 7
- Troubleshooting Tips
- Appendix A Commands-Only Prism
- Appendix B C++ and Fortran 90 Support
- Appendix C General Profiling Methodology, Timers, And Other Profiling Utilities
- Index