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Arm Forge

Arm Forge is the leading server and HPC development tool suite in research, industry, and academia for C, C++, Fortran, and Python high performance code on Linux.
Arm Forge includes Arm DDT, the best debugger for time-saving high performance application debugging, Arm MAP, the trusted performance profiler for invaluable optimization advice, and Arm Performance Reports to help you analyze your HPC application runs.

Environmental models for Arm Forge in ULHPC

module purge
module load swenv/default-env/v1.2-20191021-production
module load toolchain/intel/2019a
module load tools/ArmForge/19.1
module load tools/ArmReports/19.1

Interactive Mode

To compile

$ icc -qopenmp example.c
For debugging, profiling and analysing
# for debugging
$ ddt ./a .out

# for profiling
$ map ./a .out

# for analysis
$ perf-report ./a .out

Batch Mode

Shared memory programming model (OpenMP)

Example for the batch script:

#!/bin/bash -l
#SBATCH -J ArmForge
#SBATCH -N 1
###SBATCH -A <project_name>
#SBATCH -c 16
#SBATCH --time=00:10:00
#SBATCH -p batch

module purge
module load swenv/default-env/v1.2-20191021-production
module load toolchain/intel/2019a
module load tools/ArmForge/19.1
module load tools/ArmReports/19.1

export OMP_NUM_THREADS=${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK:-1}

# for debugging
$ ddt ./a .out

# for profiling
$ map ./a .out

# for analysis
$ perf-report ./a .out

Distributed memory programming model (MPI)

Example for the batch script:

#!/bin/bash -l
#SBATCH -J ArmForge
###SBATCH -A <project_name>
#SBATCH -N 2
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node 28
#SBATCH --time=00:10:00
#SBATCH -p batch

module purge
module load swenv/default-env/v1.2-20191021-production
module load toolchain/intel/2019a
module load tools/ArmForge/19.1
module load tools/ArmReports/19.1

# for debugging
$ ddt srun -n ${SLURM_NTASKS} ./a .out

# for profiling
$ map srun -n ${SLURM_NTASKS} ./a .out

# for analysis
$ perf-report srun -n ${SLURM_NTASKS} ./a .out
To see the result ArmForge report

Tip

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Last update: December 2, 2024