Archived releases

CubeGUI (4.9):

• Adds a context-free plugin “Measurement”, which assists the user to perform the Score-P Measurement.
• SciPHI analysis in Advisor is deprecated now. Latest version of CubeGUI providing it is 4.8.1.
• cubegui-config replaces the command line option --common-/--cubegui-revision by the option --revision.
• Fixes the broken connection to “Vampir” in the plugin “Vampir”.
• Fixes plugin “Launch” and describes its usage in the User Guide.
• Adds optional CMake build system.
• Adds option to hide unvisited location.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.
• Replaces “Advisor” plugin by client-server capable “POP Advisor” plugin.
• Installs cubegui.desktop and AppData file.
• Adds value mode “Absolute - peer percent color scheme”.
• cubegui-config adds the command line option --ltldflags, which prints the required linker flags for libtool consumption.

CubeLib (4.9):

• Various bug fixes in library.
• CubeLib assigns proper role and paradigm to the regions for the old fashioned cube3 profiles.
• CubeLib can be built to be used with Qt+Android projects.
• Support of server-side plugins.
• Fixed issues with the usage of tools in case of a measurement including GPUs.
• CubeLib can generate topologies based on systemtree data; automatically via cube_remap2 and interactively via cube_topoassist.
• Adds cube_popx_metrics tool to calculate POPx metrics.
• cubelib-config replaces the command line option --common-/--cubelib-revision by the option --revision.
• cubelib-config adds the command line option --ltldflags, which prints the required linker flags for libtool consumption.
• Configure option --disable-tests disables the testsuite during make check.
• Adds optional CMake build system.
• Improves performance of cube_remap2 tool (and other tools) by using asynchronous computation via C++11 tasks.
• Adds GPU efficiencies in set of POP metrics, calculated by cube_popx_metrics tool.
• Improves performance of the library by using asynchronous computation via C++11 tasks.
• Adds alternative output format to cube_dump, that includes region names in a CSV format.
• Extended CubePL calls to allow evaluation of attributes:
  • cube::metric::get::
  • cube::callpath::get
  • cube::region::get
  • cube::stn::get
  • cube::locationgroup::get
  • cube::location::get
• Extended CubePL calls to allow setting attributes:
  • cube::metric::set::
  • cube::callpath::set
  • cube::region::set
  • cube::stn::set
  • cube::locationgroup::set
  • cube::location::set
• Extended CubePL engine with the call print for printing out the results into the standard output.
• Version of CubePL syntax is 1.2 now.

CubeW (4.9):

• cubew-config replaces the command line option --common-/--cubew-revision by the option --revision.
• cubew-config adds the command line option --ltldflags, which prints the required linker flags for libtool consumption.
• Added optional CMake build system.
• Minor fixes.

jCubeR (4.9):

• Fixes parsing cube files with GPU location and corresponding call paths parameters.

CubeGUI (4.8.2):

• cubegui-config and GUI report git revision properly.
• Advisor calculates POP metrics properly if one selects the FOA in the flat tree.
• Fixes performance regression in Barplot and Heatmap.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.
• Improved display of kernel tree items.

CubeLib (4.8.2):

• cubelib-config reports its git revision properly.
• Fixes bug in the calculation if metric type is not trivial.
• Various bug fixes in library.
• Fixed issues with the usage of tools in case of a measurement including GPUs.

CubeW (4.8.2):

• cubew-config tool reports its git revision properly.
• Fixes bug with the storing of the numeric parameters.
• Minor fixes.

CubeGUI (4.8.1):

• Display call site information, if available.
• Extended build system to find moc, rcc, and uic installed in the libexec directory.
• CubeGUI searches for CubeLib in $prefix to simplify common installation.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.

CubeLib (4.8.1):

• cube_remap2 stops early if no .spec file is found, neither as a file nor inside the .cubex.
• Fixed usage of deprecated calls std::binary_function and std::unary_function.
• Fixed performance regression during cube structure reading.
• Various bug fixes in library.

CubeW (4.8.1):

• Restored creation of the .cubex file as a correct .tar file.

CubeGUI (4.8):

• Improved Qt detection during the installation.
• Improved display of human-readable metric units.
• Support only GNU, Intel, and Clang compilers.
• Abandoned support of Qt4.
• Improved support for color schemes.
• Added version check menu item, which replaces automatic check in status bar.
• Reports correct revision in “about” window.
• Advisor uses Perf counters if PAPI counters are not available.
• Added zoom function for fonts.
• Improved remote file dialog.
• Fixed sorting by inclusive/exclusive value.
• Fixed unhandled tree items in dynamic hiding.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.

CubeLib (4.8):

• Reimplemented cube_server using C++11 tasks instead of fork.
• Adds cube_server for Win32.
• Improved performance of cube_remap2 tool and other parts of the library.
• cube_test accepts value “all” for command line options -e and -s.
• cube_test returns error code.
• Support of Intel oneAPI, NVIDIA HPC SDK, and AMD ROCm compilers.
• Library doesn’t use real user/group names and UIDs.
• Small tweaks in tools guide.
• Various bug fixes in library.

CubeW (4.8):

• Support of Intel oneAPI, NVIDIA HPC SDK, and AMD ROCm compilers.
• Library doesn’t use real user/group names and UIDs.
• Minor fixes.

jCubeR (4.8):

• Minor fixes.

CubeGUI (4.7):

• Build system resolves target path to Qt’s libraries if it is set up via symlinks.
• Looking for moc, uic, and rcc tools in libexec as well.
• Added in SourceCodeViewer the ability to reset the previously selected user-defined path to the source file.
• Added metric “Processor frequency” to the standard collection.
• Improved performance of synchronized cubegui instances.
• Fixed summation of derived metrics in value views, selections, and for hiding.
• Added option to disable QWebEngine at runtime. (QWebEngine renders documentation nicely, but doesn’t work with some graphics drivers.)
• System Topology Plugin: added toolbar widget to directly choose a topology, if more than three topologies are available.
• Improved boxplot presentation.
• TreeItemMarker plugin shows relation between location group and its creator by marking both items if one of them is selected.
• Successfully loaded plugins automatically notify other plugins by setting a global value.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.

CubeLib (4.7):

• Voiding one metric voids its whole subtree. Important for remapping .spec files.
• cube_dump also prints CUBE file metadata by section.
• cube_remap2 uses only CPU threads to calculate Scalasca metrics.
• cube_cut accepts multiple regions for reroot and prune operations.
• Fixed handling of cube files containing GPU locations.
• CubePL operator “defined” can be used to test if a metric is defined.
• Support for location type CUBE_LOCATION_TYPE_ACCELERATOR_STREAM and location group type CUBE_LOCATION_GROUP_TYPE_ACCELERATOR. (CUBE_LOCATION_TYPE_ACCELERATOR_STREAM is an alias for CUBE_LOCATION_TYPE_GPU and has the same numerical value.)
• Added a call bool cube_make_unique_name ( const string&, string& ) to perform the metric unique name correction to ensure one can use this metric in CubePL expressions.
• Various bug fixes in library.

CubeW (4.7):

• Support for location type CUBE_LOCATION_TYPE_ACCELERATOR_STREAM and location group type CUBE_LOCATION_GROUP_TYPE_ACCELERATOR. (CUBE_LOCATION_TYPE_ACCELERATOR_STREAM is an alias for CUBE_LOCATION_TYPE_GPU and has the same numerical value.)
• Added a call bool cube_make_unique_name ( const char *, char * ) to perform the metric unique name correction to ensure one can use this metric in CubePL expressions.
• Build shared and static libraries as default.
• Minor fixes.

jCubeR (4.7):

• Support for location type ACCELERATOR_STREAM and location group type ACCELERATOR. (ACCELERATOR_STREAM is an alias for GPU and has the same numerical value.)

CubeGUI (4.6):

• Support of Qt6.
• Added task call tree.
• Implemented undo operation for call tree modifications.
• Fixed dependencies of reroot/prune operation.
• Info displays attributes of all tree elements.
• Value widget uses selected stylesheets as well.
• Metric Editor supports creation of non-rowwise metrics.
• Provide a command-line autocompletion script.
• Usage of QWebEngine is optional.
• Usage of QConcurrent is optional.
• One can disable usage of the parallel calculation during the configure step.
• Plugin “Advisor” supports hybrid POP2 assessments.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.

CubeLib (4.6):

• cube_server lists only CUBE files.
• Removed cube_score as EPIK traces are deprecated.
• Support for region names with non-Latin symbols.
• Added memory dump for CubePL engine.
• cube_dump prints out CubePL memory if configured with --enable-debug.
• Various bug fixes in library.

CubeW (4.6):

• Small improvements in build system.
• Minor fixes.

jCubeR (4.6):

• Minor improvements in build system.
• Minor fixes.

CubeGUI (4.5):

• Changed configure option --with-cubelib-config to --with-cubelib to streamline with Score-P and Scalasca.
• Added support for parallel calculation of tree items.
• Added Bookmark toolbar to save state of loaded cube file.
• Added support for i18n (no translations yet).
• Added “Scaling” plugin for simple scaling studies (works best with JengaFett plugin).
• Added client-server capability (works with server included with CubeLib 4.5).
• Plugins can define their own category for the system tree tab and place their own windows under this category.
• Additional system tree sort option.
• Extended System Topology Visualization Plugin.
• Improved handling for 1-dimensional topologies.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.

CubeLib (4.5):

• Use mangled region names in option -r for the tool cube_stat.
• Using C++11 instead of POSIX regex.h. Requires GCC >= 4.9 or another compiler with working support of C++11.
• Library is thread-safe and reentrant. Requires C++11 mutexes.
• Removed custom memory management for non-trivial data types as it led to a segmentation fault during finalization.
• Various bug fixes in library.

CubeW (4.5):

• Small improvements in documentation.
• Minor fixes.

jCubeR (4.5):

• Minor improvements in documentation.
• Minor fixes.

CubeGUI (4.4.4):

• Requires support for C++11 for the build.
• Improved detection of Qt modules.
• Display attributes in Info Widget.
• Do not reset zoom level in System Topology Plugin.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.

CubeLib (4.4.4):

• Requires support for C++11 for the build.
• Fixed handling of attributes and parameters by the library and tools.
• Extended CubePL with the support of a custom aggregation operator for the post-derived metrics.
• Do not lose attributes during remapping anymore.
• Fixed generation of documentation.
• Improved rerooting.

CubeW (4.4.3):

• Fixed generation of PDF Documentation.
• Minor fixes.

jCubeR (4.4.2):

• Fixed handling of ghost metrics. They are ignored gracefully as they are not supported.
• Fixed issue with 0 bytes metric data size.
• Minor fixes.

CubeGUI (4.4.3):

• Fixed display of mangled function names.
• Added a context menu option “Expand next level”.
• Fixed refresh issue if plugin is detached.
• Added an “expert” mode to display hidden ghost metrics in the Metrics pane.
• Improved Qt detection.
• Fixed emission of signals to plugins while multiple selection of elements.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.

CubeLib (4.4.3):

• Support for >8GB files via PAX headers.
• Extended cube_stat output.
• Removed creation of the topology “Process x Thread [ x GPU ]” in cube_remap2.
• Extended CubePL post-derived metrics calculation.
• Various bug fixes in library.

CubeW (4.4.2):

• Support for >8GB files via PAX headers.
• Minor fixes.

jCubeR (4.4.1):

• Support for >8GB files via PAX headers.
• Minor fixes.

CubeGUI (4.4.2 & internal 4.4.1):

• Improved “Find” functionality and automatic region display in the “Source Code viewer”.
• Fixed serious performance problem if remote X is used.
• Improved GUI performance for large call trees; show the number of call tree references in flat tree info.
• Limited expanded and selected items when switching between flat and call tree (>10,000 items selected); items are marked instead and can be selected afterwards with context menu item “select marked”.
• ‘Edit metric’ is not disabled anymore if creation of derived metric was cancelled.
• Copy selected flat tree values as they are shown in the tree.
• Renamed configure option --with-debug to --enable-debug to be more consistent with its semantic.
• Fixed segmentation fault while selecting “Info” for some non-root metrics.
• Provide context information about STN for the info window.
• Made check for updates comply with data privacy requirements.
• Info widget now shows additional information about flat tree items.
• If info context menu item is called for system tree items, the info widget is created and detached, and the information is shown in a third panel.
• Improved shortening heuristic.
• CUBE_DOCPATH accepts URLs for online documentation lookup.
• Show context-free plugins at startup.
• Various bug fixes in GUI.

CubeLib (4.4.2 & internal 4.4.1):

• Fixed bug in declustering algorithm leading sometimes to wrong results.
• Improved generation of temporary directory.
• cube_dump tool prints out call path parameters.
• cube_remap2 tool creates topology “Process x Thread [ x GPU ]” and adds it to the result file.
• Improvements of the tools guide: elaborate purpose and details of missing tools, describe details of the remapping tool, and describe syntax of .spec files.
• Split “tau2cube” into library and an application.
• Keep order of parameters and attributes.
• Set metric inactive if VOID.
• Fixed performance issues in CubeIoProxy.
• Various bug fixes in library.

CubeW (4.4.1):

• Cleaned up public symbols in library.
• Minor fixes.

CubeGUI (4.4):

• Various performance improvements.
• Allow automatic demangling of region names if possible.
• Improved “Help” display.
• Improved display of units such as “bytes” or “occurrences”. Added a human-readable format.
• Improved “Heatmap” and “Barplot” plugins to display a variable number of iterations.
• Improved “Info” display.
• Improved “Source Code viewer”.
• Improved Plugin tabs organization.
• Provide “Diff”, “Merge”, and “Mean” as context-free plugins in the GUI.
• Added “Metric Identification” plugin for comfortable identification of a metric’s source (such as Score-P, Scalasca, or Remapper).
• Added “Sunburst” as a standard system tree visualization plugin.
• For more details see ChangeLog.

CubeLib (4.4):

• One can mark derived metrics as “non convertible” to prevent conversion into data, and as “non cacheable” if their value is runtime-dependent.
• Build system improvements.
• Documentation infrastructure refactoring.
• Improvements in Cube Tools.
• CUBELIB_DEBUG and CUBEPL_VERBOSE_METRICS set the CubePL engine into verbose mode.
• Cube tools do not append the .cubex extension incorrectly anymore.
• Fixes in the CubePL engine.
• For more details see ChangeLog.

CubeW (4.4):

• One can mark derived metrics as “non convertible” to prevent conversion into data, and as “non cacheable” if their value is runtime-dependent.
• Build system improvements.
• Documentation infrastructure refactoring.
• Improved detection of zlib.
• Improved memory handling (enabled during configure if needed).
• Bug fixes.

jCubeR (4.4):

• Build system improvements.
• Documentation infrastructure refactoring.

• Support for metric::call::<uniq_name>
• Fixed segmentation fault if the metric is of type rowwise=false
• Fixed segmentation fault when trying to call metric::set on an unknown metric
• Fixed crash while referencing a metric in the CubePL initialization section
• ? within a regex is not ignored anymore

• Inversion of color map.
• Storing user-defined color maps in settings.