CubeGUI -- A Qt-based graphical explorer to view performance profiles

[Thyre]

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Software Name

Cube GUI

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Public URL

• General URL: https://www.scalasca.org/scalasca/software/cube-4.x/download.html
• Link to tarball: https://apps.fz-juelich.de/scalasca/releases/cube/4.8/dist/cubegui-4.8.2.tar.gz

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Technical Overview

Cube GUI is a graphics explorer for display and analysis of a multi-dimensional
performance space consisting of the dimensions (i) performance metric, (ii) call
path, and (iii) system resource. Each dimension can be represented as a tree,
where non-leaf nodes of the tree can be collapsed or expanded to achieve the
desired level of granularity.

Cube GUI would be a great addition to OpenHPC, as it would allow users to better use both Score-P and Scalasca, both already being part of the OpenHPC repositories, view their results and get additional information.

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Latest stable version number

v4.8.2

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Open-source license type

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Relationship to component?

• contributing developer
• user
• other

If other, please describe:

I'm not directly a developer of the software myself, but the people working on it are in my working group and I have close contact.

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Build system

• autotools-based
• CMake
• other

If other, please describe:

Cube GUI will eventually also support installing via CMake, but the preferred installation method (for Linux) will stay at autotools-based for now.

Does the current build system support staged path installations?
For example: make install DESTIR=/tmp/foo (or equivalent)

• yes
• no

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Does component run in user space or are administrative credentials required?

• user space
• admin

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Does component require post-installation configuration.

• yes
• no

If yes, please describe briefly:

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If component is selected, are you willing and able to collaborate with OpenHPC maintainers during the integration process?

• yes
• no

Sure! I already discussed this with @adrianreber at ISC 2024 for a bit. I am willing to try to both provide new versions of our tools and update them once new versions come out. I've recently started to update the Fedora packages for Score-P and OPARI2 for the same reason.

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Does the component include test collateral (e.g. regression/verification tests) in the publicly shipped source?

• yes
• no

If yes, please briefly describe the intent and location of the tests.

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Does the component have additional software dependencies (beyond compilers/MPI) that are not part of standard Linux distributions?

• yes
• no

If yes, please list the dependencies and associated licenses.

Cube GUI requires having CubeLib, which is currently packaged as a part of Score-P in your OpenHPC repository. During integration of Cube GUI, I would also advise moving away from using the additional vendor dependencies in Score-P itself to install the dependencies as separate packages. This would allow upgrading the Cube libraries without needing to wait for another Score-P release.

The dependencies can all be found on the same webpage and include similar licenses.

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Does the component include online or installable documentation?

• yes
• no

If available online, please provide URL.

• User Guide: https://apps.fz-juelich.de/scalasca/releases/cube/4.8/docs/CubeUserGuide.pdf
• Install instructions: https://apps.fz-juelich.de/scalasca/releases/cube/4.8/INSTALL-cubegui.txt

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• no

[adrianreber]

@mghpcsim Can you add this to the next TSC meeting agenda? I cannot join, but I am definitely in favour of accepting this submission.

[Thyre]

Just for completeness, I've had a look at how difficult it would be to build a package.
Disregarding tests (which probably would mostly involve checking the module via test_module), the addition seems to be straight-forward:

• https://github.com/Thyre/ohpc/tree/add-cubegui-package
• Thyre/ohpc@9cf1a84

[adrianreber]

@Thyre We discussed this in the technical steering committee and this submission was approved. Sorry that it took so long, but I hope you are still interested in submitting a PR in the main repository adding CubeGUI to OpenHPC.

[Thyre]

@Thyre We discussed this in the technical steering committee and this submission was approved. Sorry that it took so long, but I hope you are still interested in submitting a PR in the main repository adding CubeGUI to OpenHPC.

Sure 😄
It will take some time due to upcoming events and, depending on our release schedule, the release of the next CubeGUI version, but I'll work on it.

[adrianreber]

Thanks a lot.