The US/DOE’s Software Tools Ecosystem Project

The US DOE has recently funded a new project that considers this interesting question: as new machines become available, how can software teams ensure that they are achieving efficient use of their machine allocations? The project, which is called Software Tools Ecosystem Project, or <i>STEP</i>, is focused on the collection of software tools and utilities that can be applied to both understanding performance bottlenecks and facilitating run time mitigation of performance degrading phenomena. STEP seeks to ensure the health of these key tools and the community that provides them against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving HPC landscape. In this talk, I’ll give an update on our efforts to provide effective performance tools, including our goals and our challenges.