The P3 Explorer: Exploring the Performance, Portability, and Productivity Wilderness

This paper documents the development of a web-based tool designed to organise and present visual representations of performance, portability, and productivity (P3) data from previously published scientific studies. The P3 Explorer operates as both an open repository of scientific data and a data dashboard, providing visual heuristic analyses of performance portability and developer productivity, created using the Intel’s P3 Analysis library. The aim of the project is to create a community-led database of P3 studies to better inform application developers of alternative approaches to developing new applications targeting high performance on diverse hardware, with consideration of developer productivity.