The POINT project for Productivity from Open, Integrated Tools has similar goals to VI-HPS, and complementary activities in deploying an integrated performance tools environment for NSF-funded HPC centres, such as TeraGrid sites in the USA.

Collaborators:

• University of Oregon
• University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)

POINT provides the PerfSuite and TAU tools, which can interoperate with VI-HPS tools Scalasca and Vampir:

• PerfSuite can generate profile analysis reports for examination and processing with Scalasca/CUBE3, in addition to ParaProf.
• TAU instrumenter can link Scalasca and VampirTrace measurement libraries, can be used for selective source-level Scalasca instrumentation, and its ParaProf browser can present Scalasca analysis reports.
• OPARI provided by Scalasca is also used by TAU and VampirTrace for processing OpenMP and POMP directives into instrumentation calls.
• Scalasca and VampirTrace trace files can be converted for analysis by the other.
• All of the tools can include hardware counter metrics provided by the PAPI library in their measurements and analyses.

Several joint POINT/VI-HPS tutorials and hands-on workshops have already taken place and further are planned: see Training for details.