Parameter Control Plugins (PCPs)

The Parameter Control Plugins are written as part of the READEX project (www.readex.eu)

Compilation and Installation

Prerequisites

To compile the Parameter Control Plugins, you need:

• C compiler
• Readex Runtime Library (RRL)
• One of the following interfaces is required to be able to do the CPU frequency and Uncore Frequency tuning:
  • x86_adapt, see https://github.com/tud-zih-energy/x86_adapt
  • msr-safe, see https://github.com/LLNL/msr-safe
  • LIKWID, see https://github.com/RRZE-HPC/likwid
  • sysfs Note: It only support CPU Frequency Scaling

Required Environment variables

• RRL_INC path to the RRL include folder

Building and installation

./build.sh <install directory. This is the directory set for CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX for each plugin>

Usage

For the usage of PCPs, please refer to the README.md of individual plugins available in each *_plugin directory.

If anything fails:

Please check whether the plugin libraries can be loaded from the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If you have some logs please contact the Author and attach the logs.

Authors

• Umbreen Sabir Mian (umbreen.mian at tu-dresden dot de)