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Research software engineering for compute- and data-intensive software in high-performance computing (HPC) environments requires performance analysis, particularly insights into hardware utilization through low-level metrics. However, collecting and interpreting these metrics can be challenging and error-prone. We present xbat (extended benchmarking automation tool), an open-source, software-agnostic tool developed by MEGWARE Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH, to simplify and automate (continuous) benchmarking.
This poster provides an overview of xbat’s features and architecture, as well as its usage and development within the hpc.bw (dtec.bw) project. Two case studies demonstrate xbat’s applicability across software types and domains: the closed-source mathematical optimization software Gurobi and the open-source molecular dynamics research software ls1 mardyn.