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SimplePerfPlot (spp)

What problem to solve?

Problem of manually / semi-manually record performance of parallel algorithm, store to tabular file, and display it

MVP
- Read output from file
- Fill tabular file with matching pattern using regex (one regex per column)
- Visualize line graph (x=cores/tasks, y=time)
- Use config file for tabular setting (research for the best config file, possibly json)

~~Shell script?~~
- + highly portable, might also be ported to windows (won't likely)
- = HPC didn't need portability (but maybe portability across HPC facility)
- - Quite hard to make & debug (need to learn more about unix cmd tools)
- - Visualization still need another tools
Python script
- ? What python? 2 or 3? Might be 3
- + Visualization is easy (just use a popular & easy to use library)
- - Python and library dependency (eased by using python pip)
- - Need to learn how to create python library and post to pypip
- + Possibility for better functionality improvement is easier(e.g., GUI, regex matcher viz.)
~~Binary?~~
- - Hardly portable
- + Visualization is possible
- + The most performing option
- - Might be hard to make and improve

MVP
- Time a basic MPI program with varying cores
- Time a basic OpenMP program with varying tasks
- Time a basic MPI + OpenMP program with varying cores and tasks
Zero version
- This is where major functions, refactoring, and rewriting happens as needed by me
Major update
- This is after the project is stable (without many major changes needed to happen)

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