SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROFILING AN APPLICATION RUNNING ON A PARALLEL-PROCESSING COMPUTER SYSTEM

A runtime system implemented in accordance with the present invention provides an application platform for parallel-processing computer systems. Such a runtime system enables users to leverage the computational power of the parallel-processing computer systems to accelerate/optimize numeric and array-intensive computations in their application programs. A profiling tool is used to collect, analyze, and visualize the performance data of an application in connection with its execution on a parallel-processing computer system through the runtime system. This profiling tool greatly enhances an application developer's ability to understand how an application is executed on the parallel-processing computer system and fine-tune the application to achieve high performance.