[petsc-users] [petsc-maint] HPCToolKit/HPCViewer on OS X

[Barry Smith]

  The Instruments tool on the Mac, part of Xcode is trivial to use (you don't need to use Xcode GUI to build) and seems to provide useful information.

   Barry

> On Jan 13, 2016, at 8:22 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Bhalla, Amneet Pal S <amneetb at live.unc.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
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> I am trying to profile my application code that uses a lot of PETSc solvers. I am running applications on OS X - Yosemite. I am thinking 
> of using HPCToolKit for the purpose, but could not find a dmg package for that. I have access to a remote linux machine that has HPCToolkit 
> and HPCViewer installed on it — so I just need to have a viewer on my local Mac machine to analyze the files generate by HPCToolkit.
> Has anyone tried building/installing these packages on OS X?
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> I have not done it on OSX. Can you mail us a -log_summary for a rough cut? Sometimes its hard
> to interpret the data avalanche from one of those tools without a simple map.
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>   Thanks,
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>      Matt
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> Thanks,
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> — Amneet 
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