In general, HP Caliper runs do one of the following:
•Collect data
•Collect data and generate a report
•Generate a report based on previously collected data
•Analyze previously collected data
For the last item above, HP Caliper provides the HP Caliper Advisor, a
The latest version of HP Caliper is available on the HP Caliper home page at:
What Does HP Caliper Run On?
Supported Hardware and Operating Systems
HP Caliper is supported on HP Integrity systems. HP Caliper does not measure programs compiled for
HP Caliper is supported on these operating systems:
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•Linux version 2.6: RedHat4, Debian 3.0, and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9
HP Caliper can be used in an Integrity Virtual Machine environment on a guest system.
Supported Compilers and Application Environments
On
On Linux, HP Caliper has been primarily validated with code produced with gcc and g++, and minimally tested with code produced from the Intel icc compiler.
HP Caliper can generally be used on:
•Programs compiled using HP, Intel, and GNU compilers, with and without optimization.
•Assembly and Java programs.
•Stripped programs, and programs compiled with optimization or debug information or both. This includes support for both the +objdebug and +noobjdebug options.
•Both ILP32 (+DD32) and LP64 (+DD64) programs, both
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•Applications that fork or vfork or exec themselves or other executables.
•Shell scripts and the programs they spawn.
•Main, static, and dynamic shared libraries.
•Entire run, partial run, and server/daemon programs.
18 HP Caliper at a Glance