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ELAN (for efficiency loss analysis) is an environment that offers not only program development, configuration and debugging tools, but also suited measurement equipment for program observation as well as for performance and loss-analysis in a multiprocessor system. In this paper first some basic notions and a classification of all sources of performance loss in a multiprocessor are given. Then we present an experimental environment which comprises and extends some already existing tools and is aimed to (semi-)automatize performance- and loss-analysis on the M3-multiprocessor. For clarification and concreteness we also included a few examples of such analyses and some notes on implementation aspects of ELAN.
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Moser, M. (1990). The ELAN performance analysis environment. In: Burkhart, H. (eds) CONPAR 90 — VAPP IV. VAPP CONPAR 1990 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53065-7_99
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