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•Diagnostics view

•Help view

As is typical of most GUIs, the HP Caliper GUI lets you reconfigure, resize, and reposition all of the views to suit your needs. Views that are not currently needed can be closed (and reopened when needed) to make more room for others.

Here is an example of the GUI window showing most of the views, slightly rearranged from their default locations:

Figure 4 HP Caliper GUI

Projects View

The Projects view helps you manage your performance information by storing it in projects. A project consists of one or more folders and can contain two types of information:

•Collection specifications

•Measurement runs

A project is stored in a directory called a workspace.

A collection specification, represented by , is all the information used to make a measurement.

A measurement run folder, represented by , contains information about the types of data available for a single measurement run. It can also contain the collection specification used to collect the data in the folder. This allows you to easily rerun a measurement.

You can save collection specifications without collecting data by selecting the menu item File→Save Collection Specification As. Collection specifications saved separately from collection runs are stored in a folder in your project. This folder is called Saved Collection Specifications, represented by .

A dataset is a set of performance data collected by a single HP Caliper measurement run. Examples of datasets are: Run Summary, Memory Usage, Process Tree, Histogram, Call Graph, and so forth.

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