This book contains the revised selected papers of 4 workshops held in conjunction with the
International Conference on High Performance Computing Networking Storage and Analysis (SC)
in November 2017 in Denver CO USA and in November 2018 in Dallas TX USA: the 6th and 7th
International Workshop on Extreme-Scale Programming Tools ESPT 2017 and ESPT 2018 and the 4th
and 5th International Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis VPA 2017 and VPA 2018. The 11
full papers of ESPT 2017 and ESPT 2018 and the 6 full papers of VPA 2017 and VPA 2018 were
carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The papers discuss the requirements
for exascale-enabled tools as well as new approaches of applying visualization and visual
analytic techniques to large-scale applications. Topics of interest include: programming tools
methodologies for performance engineering tool technologies for extreme-scale challenges (e.g.
scalability resilience power) tool support for accelerated architectures and large-scale
multi-cores tool infrastructures and environments evolving future application requirements
for programming tools and technologies application developer experiences with programming and
performance tools scalable displays of performance data case studies demonstrating the use of
performance visualization in practice data models to enable scalable visualization graph
representation of unstructured performance data presentation of high-dimensional data visual
correlations between multiple data sources human-computer interfaces for exploring performance
data and multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration.
