High Performance Computing (HPC) Application Performance Prediction & Profiling Tools

EP Analytics Inc. will develop and commercialize a suite of easy-to-use performance profiling and prediction tools for characterizing the performance and energy efficiency of High Fidelity computer codes. DTRA uses High Fidelity codes to investigate weapon effects phenomenology and techniques for countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). End-to-end High Fidelity simulations in support of the DTRA Agent Defeat Warfighter Capability will require calculations including multiple phenomena that occur in vastly different time scales (sec to hours). As DTRA becomes increasingly reliant on computational modeling and simulation techniques, efficient use of existing computational resources and planning and optimizing for next generation architectures become critical. The behavioral data captured by the tools developed under this effort will be captured in a non-intrusive fashion and presented to end-users and HPC center staff in the form of easy-to-understand and actionable performance reports, graphs and optimization hints.