Assessment Tools: Purpose

• System users:
  • Help in understanding how their programs are executed
  • Identify bottlenecks in their applications and evaluate potential parallelism

• System designers:
  • Can observe the behavior of the run-time machinery (e.g., scheduling algorithm)
  • Can evaluate the efficiency of other tools (granularity analysis systems, parallelizers)

• In general, helpful for:
  • Providing a high-level view of the execution
  • Useful for a series of purposes

• But users demand some requirements!