Tutorial: Reducing Trace File Size for IntelĀ® Trace Analyzer and Collector
You
have completed the Reducing Trace File Size tutorial. The following
is the summary of the important things to remember when using the IntelĀ®
Trace Collector capabilities for reducing the size of your trace file.
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Tutorial Recap |
Key Tutorial Take-aways |
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1. Configuration options |
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You can define several filters in one and the same configuration file. |
2. Runtime options |
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-trace-collectives and -trace-pt2pt options are only supported at runtime with the Hydra process manager. |
3. Instrument your code to collect data on specific functions |
Included the MPI_Pcontrol function call into the source code to collect trace data on the exchange function. |
Total execution time will be written into the trace file, but the trace file will contain only the MPI functions called in the part of code indicated by MPI_Pcontrol. |
Next step: Apply one of the described methods to reduce the size of your own trace file.