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-- -- To Appear in Proceedings of the 1994 Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, May 1994 (Knoxville, TN). Dynamic Program Instrumentation for Scalable Performance Tools Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth Barton P. Miller Jon Cargille hollings@cs.wisc.edu bart@cs.wisc.edu jon@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract understand the bottlenecks in their program. It must be In this paper, we present a new technique called frugal so that the instrumentation overhead does not dynamic instrumentation that provides efficient, scalable, obscure or distort the bottlenecks in the original program. yet detailed data collection for large-scale parallel appli- The instrumentation system must also scale to large, pro- cations. Our approach is unique because it defers insert- duction data set sizes and number of processors. ing any instrumentation until the application is in execu- A detailed instrumentation system needs to be able tion. We can insert or change instrumentation at any time to collect data about each component of a parallel