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TAU Commander fromParaTools, Inc. is aproduction-grade performance engineering solution that makesThe TAU Performance System users more productive.It presents a simple, intuitive, and systemized interface that guides usersthrough performance engineering workflows and offers constructive feedbackin case of error. TAU Commander also enhances the performance engineer'sability to mine actionable information from the application performancedata by connecting to asuite of cloud-based data analysis, storage,visualization, and reporting services.

TAU Commander is especially useful for porting, developing, modernizing,benchmarking, and purchasing efforts where the intricacies of multi-layeredsoftware parallelism are difficult to intuit. The principal components ofTAU Commander are:

• An intuitive user interface for theTAU Performance System that simplifies theprocess of acquiring and displaying software performance data on avariety of computer systems.
• A suite of cloud-based performance data analysis, storage, visualization,and reporting services that enhances the performance engineer's abilityto mine actionable information from software application performance data.

Install TAU Commander to the default location:

• make install

Or, to install to a different location:

• make install INSTALLDIR=/path/to/installation

Add TAU Commander to your PATH:

• bash-like shells (nearly everyone):
  • export PATH=/path/to/taucmdr/bin:$PATH
• csh-like shells (nearly everyone else):
  • set path=(/path/to/taucmdr/bin $path)

Initialize a new TAU project:

• cd/path/to/your/code
• tau initialize

• Add--help to any TAU Commander command line to see command line usage.
• Usetau help to view online documentation. (Very incomplete at the moment.)
• Contactsupport@paratools.com with questions or feedback.

TAU Commander developers should visit thedeveloper documentation.

Initial development of TAU Commander was supported by the United StatesDepartment of Energy under DOE SBIR award DE-SC0009593. Development of supportfor machine learning and artificial intelligence applications is supported bythe United States Department of Energy under DOE SBIR award DE-SC0019700.

The work on extending TAU Commander for OpenSHMEM was supported by theUnited States Department of Defense (DoD) and used resources of theComputational Research and Development Programs and the Oak RidgeLeadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.