Akypuera is a tracing library for MPI applications released under
GPLv3. Throughout the years, it has become also a repository for
a plethora of converters from OTF2, TAU, Paraver file formats to the Paje
file format. The library, simplified as aky (linked with -laky to MPI
apps), uses librastro to provide low memory footprint and low
intrusion during tracing. The binary trace files are converted to the
Paje file
format
using the tool called aky_converter. Akypuera is a word from the
tupi language that means trace.
Akypuera has support for both OMPI (a real MPI implementation) and SMPI (the SimGrid's MPI interface to simulate MPI applications), but not at the same time. So if you want to trace OMPI, you need to -DSMPI=OFF and use mpicc to compile your application. If you want to trace SMPI, you need to -DSMPI=ON and then use smpicc. More details on this page of the Akypuera's wiki to know how to configure aky with SMPI.
Below we list a quick hands-on with aky. Refer to Akypuera's wiki for extra details.
No special dependencies are required. Other dependencies are included
in this repository as git submodules so cloning as below should be
sufficient to take them automatically. We recommend an out-of-source
compilation (run ccmake on the build directory to customize the
compilation/installation):
git clone --recursive git://github.com/schnorr/akypuera.git
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
There are many ways. If your MPI application is already compiled simply do:
LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libaky.so:/path/to/libmpi.so.1 mpirun -np n ./myapp
If you have access to the MPI application source code, you can use aky like this:
mpicc source_file.c -o mpi_app -laky
When executing, you might want to specify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
contain the path to libaky.so. The execution will create a binary
trace file in the rastro format for each MPI process. A run with 3
processes generate these files: rastro-0-0.rst, rastro-1-0.rst,
and rastro-2-0.rst. Trace files created with akypuera are converted
to the Paje generic format using
aky_converter, passing as parameter all the rst files generated
by the mpi execution. The corresponding paje trace file is printed on
stdout.
aky_converter rastro*.rst
Akypuera is bundled with a bunch of other tools for trace file conversions towards the Paje file format. See the Akypuera's wiki for a detailed description of how to configure, build, and use each of them. Here's a quick list of them:
tau2paje: Converts from the TAU trace file format to the Paje's generic file format. More about tau2paje.
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otf2paje: Converts from the OTF trace file format to the Paje's generic file format. More about otf2paje. This tool is currently deprecated and kept only for historical reasons. You might want to consider the adoption of the Open Trace Format 2 (OTF2) trace file format if you are coming from the OTF world (see next point). -
otf22paje: Converts from the OTF2 trace file format to Paje's generic file format. More about otf22paje. The tool relies on the OTF2 library released with ScoreP. Since the API for reading the binary format of OTF2 traces change very often, any help to keep it updated is very appreciated. As of now, we rely on custom scripts (written in bash, perl, and julia) that exploit the more stable output of theotf2-printtool. So far, we have been using such scripts to convert OpenMP traces created with ScoreP; they are available at this directory. The perl and julia versions are recommended.