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NAME

       tau2profile - convert TAU tracefiles to TAU profile files

SYNOPSIS

       tau2vprofile [-d directory] [-s snapshot_interval] {tau_tracefile} {tau_eventfile}

DESCRIPTION

       This program is generated when TAU is configured with the -TRACE option.

       The tau2profile converter takes a single tau_tracefile (*.trc) and tau_eventfile (*.edf) and produces a corresponding series of profile
       files. The input files must be specified in that order, with optinal parameters coming afterward. Multi-file TAU traces must be merged
       before conversion.

OPTIONS

       -d Output profile files to the specified 'directory' rather than the current directory.

       -s Output a profile snapshot showing the state of the profile data accumulated from the trace every 'snapshot_interval' time units. The
       snapshot profiles are placed sequentially in directories labled 'snapshot_n' where 'n' is an integer ranging from 0 to to the total number
       of snapshots -1.

EXAMPLES

       The program must be run with the tau trace and tau event files specified in the command line in that order. Any additional arguments
       follow. The following will produce a profile file array, from the TAU trace and event files merged.trc and tau.edf trace file:

       tau2profile merged.trc tau.edf

       The following will convert merged.trc and tau.edf to a series of profiles one directory higher. It will also produce a profile snapshot
       every 250,000 time units:

       tau2profile merged.trc tau.edf -d ./.. -s 250000

SEE ALSO

       vtf2profile(1), tau2vtf(1), tau2otf(1), tau_merge(1), tau_convert(1)

								    12/22/2005							    TAU2PROFILE(1)