Exana: EXecution-driven Application aNAlysis tool

Copyright (C) 2014-2018, Yukinori Sato All Rights Reserved.

Please check ExanaPkg, a packaged version (pre-compiled into binary code) with utility tools.

Currently, Exana provide the following functions:

• LCCT (Loop and call context tree)
• LCCT+M (Loop and call context tree with memory dataflow)
• MemPat (Memory access pattern analysis)
• Working set analysis
• C2Sim (Advanced cache simulation with line-conflict detection, see [EuroPar 2017])

see wiki

see wiki

The canonical publication to cite Exana and ExanaPkg is:

• Yukinori Sato and Toshio Endo. “An Accurate Simulator of Cache-line Conflicts to Exploit the Underlying Cache Performance” 23rd International Europian Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2017), August 2017. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64203-1_9)

• Yukinori Sato, Shimpei Sato, and Toshio Endo. Exana: An Execution-driven Application Analysis Tool for Assisting Productive Performance Tuning. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems (SEPS 2015), held in conjunction with SPLASH2015, Pages 1-10, October 2015. (DOI: 10.1145/2837476.2837477)

Please read the following papers if you are interested in detail techniques behind Exana:

• Yukinori Sato, Yasushi Inoguchi, Tadao Nakamura. Identifying Program Loop Nesting Structures during Execution of Machine Code. IEICE Transaction on Information and Systems, Vol.E97-D, No.9, pp.2371-2385, Sep. 2014. (DOI:10.1587/transinf.2013EDP7455)

• Yukinori Sato, Yasushi Inoguchi and Tadao Nakamura. Whole Program Data Dependence Profiling to Unveil Parallel Regions in the Dynamic Execution. In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC 2012). (DOI:10.1109/IISWC.2012.6402902)