TAU - Notes about the Tuning and Analysis Utilities Kit

Optional: modules
Download it¹
Optional, if some dependencies cannot be installed via the distro: PDT.
- Download PDT
- Untar the ext.tgz in the top level TAU directory: tar zxf ext.tgz. It will create an external_dependencies folder.
  - PDT can be installed using ./configure ; make ; make install
Optional: ./tau_setup
./configure -prefix=/opt/tau && make
- results will be in /opt/tau/x86_64/bin or similar arch folder.
- add the bin folder to the PATH
./tau_validate -v /opt/tau/x86_64
Optional: ./upgradetau /path/to/old/source
Use (see doc)

# load environment if modules is installed; note: cannot find that pesky modulefile?
module load tau
# or
export TAU_MAKEFILE=[path to tau]/[arch]/lib/[makefile]
export TAU_OPTIONS=-optCompInst

#
# w/o instrumentation
#
TAU_PROFILE=1 tau_exec -v -memory_debug <binary> 
pprof

#
# w/ instrumentation
#
TAU_MAKEFILE=[path to tau]/[arch]/lib/[makefile] TAU_OPTIONS=-optCompInst CXX=tau_cxx.sh CC=tau_cc.sh make
# or
tau_cc.sh -tau_makefile=[path to makefile] -tau_options=[option] samplecprogram.c

<run the binary>
pprof # or paraprof ; paraprof needs a full jre