STARPU_FXT_TOOL(1)

💖 STARPU_FXT_TOOL 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Commands section of the manual, and it's literally the glow-up station for your raw StarPU traces. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

starpu_fxt_tool — convert raw StarPU FxT trace to various traces

like, it takes your messy raw trace and turns it into the pretty formats. no cap. 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

starpu_fxt_tool [ options ]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Generate a trace in the Paje format ✨

that's the whole vibe. you feed it trace stuff, it hands you back a Paje trace. iconic.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -i <input file[s]> — specify the input file[s]. you can hand it several files, or you can just say this option over and over again — that's the move for the MPI execution case 💀
• -o <output file> — specify the paje output filename 🎀
• -d <directory> — specify the directory in which to save files 📁
• -c — use a different colour for every type of task 🌈 (baby's first rainbow, we love to see it)
• -no-events — do not show events 🚫
• -no-counter — do not show scheduler counters 🚫
• -no-bus — do not show PCI bus transfers 🚫
• -no-flops — do not show flops 🚫
• -no-smooth — avoid smoothing values for gflops etc. 📉 (so, the raw numbers, un-glossed)
• -no-acquire — do not show application data acquisitions tasks in DAG 🚫
• -label-deps — add label on dependencies. 🏷️
• -memory-states — show detailed memory states of handles 👑
• -internal — show StarPU-internal tasks in DAG ✨
• -number-events — generate a file counting FxT events by type 🔢
• -use-task-color — propagate the specified task color to the contexts 🎨
• -h, --help — display this help and exit 🫶
• -v, --version — output version information and exit ⭐

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to <starpu-devel@inria.fr>.

(they're nice, don't be scared, just tell them what broke 🙈)

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and that's the whole page, bestie. this one's from StarPU 1.4.10, dated September 2026 — go forth and trace your little heart out 👑💜