Design Goals

• Easy to Use

  • Don’t have to be a Computer Scientist or Computer Engineer
    • What on earth is call stack sampling? Why would I use it?
  • GUI, Command Line, Batch Scheduled -- Your Choice!

• Portable

  • Platform Independent
    • Use components that already support the platforms of interest
    • Some recoding may be necessary if using unique features of a particular platform

• Scalable

  • Thousands of Processors
    • ASC laboratory systems already use 8192 processors. Future systems even larger.
    • SGI® Altix® system installed at a customer site has 10240 processors.
  • Hundreds of Shared Libraries
    • Some SGI customers load 300+ shared libraries.

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