Relating the Execution Behaviour with the Structure of the Application

Traditional parallel programming forces the programmer to understand the enormous amount of performance information obtained from the execution of a program. In this paper, we show how the use of KappaPi automatic analysis tool helps the programmers of applications to avoid this difficult task. In the last stage of the analysis we discuss the possibilities of establishing relationships between the performance information found and the programming structure of the application.

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