Detailed dependency analysis and I/O profiling
Resolve application file and network dependencies for migration.
Capture application environment and I/O patterns for debugging deployment and performance issues.
Profile application I/O for storage sizing and tuning.
Why profile I/O?
Even highly-optimised applications can have bad I/O patterns in deployment so it is a good idea to profile all applications, even when you can’t change the source code.
Problems such as storing files in the wrong place or trawling the PATH variable happen all the time and are easy to fix.
Fixing problems in third party tools at Arm
This chart shows reads and writes from a build at ARM. It is using shared storage for temp files by mistake, instead of local storage. It caused significant slow down, but was easy to fix.
System administrators
“Why does this application work for you and not for me?”
Deep dive into application arguments, environment, libraries and dependencies to debug deployment and performance issues. Breeze gives you everything you always wanted from strace.
HPC user education
Make every engineer an I/O expert with an I/O healthcheck report.
The Ellexus Healthcheck reports give a straightforward I/O overview and performance recommendations based on common I/O issues.
Tool and system optimisation
“Why is my application slow today?”
Automate performance and regression testing with detailed I/O profiling. Export file and dependencies for application correctness and migration.
Customer successes
Debugging environment issues
We changed the environment and the problem was solved! We solved the problem in 45 minutes. I’m happy with that!Steve Robson, Field Applications Engineer at Cadence
Speeding up a build by 87%
Ahmed Ismail, software engineer at Mentor Graphics
Delivering good customer support with Breeze
Simon Cross, Global Customer Services at Ansys
Build and release test speed up to 3x
Jenson Ho, Developer Support Engineer at Mentor Graphics
Genome pipeline speed up from 32hr to 18hr runtime
Keiran Raine, Cancer Researcher, Sanger Institute