Application Performance Snapshot User Guide for Linux* OS

ID 772048
Date 10/31/2024
Public

Creating Configuration File for Intel® Trace Collector

Application Performance Snapshot (APS) provides integration with Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector in the form of Intel® Trace Collector configuration files to reduce tracing overhead.

APS allows you to create a configuration file that enables tracing of only most used MPI functions in the application. You can select top functions sorted by time, imbalance or volume values, and change the number of functions selected.

To create a configuration file, run aps-report with the -j (--itac_config) option. Use time, imbalance or volume as an option argument to pick top functions by the respective value. You can limit the number of functions selected using the -N option. By default, four functions are selected. For example:

				$ aps-report ./aps_result_<postfix> -j time -N 5

A configuration file created with the command line above may look as follows:

				ACTIVITY MPI OFF
				SYMBOL MPI_Init ON
				SYMBOL MPI_Recv ON
				SYMBOL MPI_Send ON
				SYMBOL MPI_Barrier ON
				SYMBOL MPI_Bcast ON
				ACTIVITY Application 0