Building Industrial Strength Performance Tools

Google Tech Talks October, 26 2007 ABSTRACT In this talk we will discuss the issues involved in building industrial-strength performance tools. We first discuss the requirements for such tools, and then the issues and tradeoffs involved in compiling the targets for the tools. We then discuss data collection, and the strengths and weaknesses of the different technologies that can be used. We go on to discuss the issues involved in data presentation, and how to show data in the user's model of the code, rather than in the implementation model in which the data is collected. Finally, we discuss the issues involved in testing such tools. Speaker: Marty Itzkowitz, Sun Microsystems Marty Itzkowitz is Architect and Project Lead of Performance Tools at Sun Microsystems, where he is responsible for various tools including Sun Studio Performance Analyzer. Previous to Sun, Marty was Technical Lead for Performance and Parallelization Tools at SGI, where he lead the development of SGI SpeedShop and SGI Developer Magic.