User's guide

The most complete source of information about coNCePTuaL is the coNCePTuaL User's Guide:

• The coNCePTuaL User's Guide (3.0MB PDF file)
• The coNCePTuaL User's Guide (HTML, separate pages)

Publications

coNCePTuaL is also described in the following peer-reviewed papers (in reverse chronological order):

• Scott Pakin. The Design and Implementation of a Domain-Specific Language for Network Performance Testing. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(10):pp. 1436–1449, October 2007. Available from https://ccsweb.lanl.gov/PAL/publications/papers/Pakin2007:conc-design.pdf.
• Leon Arber and Scott Pakin. The impact of message-buffer alignment on communication performance. Parallel Processing Letters, 15 June 2005. Available from https://ccsweb.lanl.gov/PAL/publications/papers/Arber2005:alignment.pdf.
• Scott Pakin. Rapid development of application-specific network performance tests. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2005), Workshop on Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science, Atlanta, Georgia, May 22-25, 2005. Available from https://ccsweb.lanl.gov/PAL/publications/papers/Pakin2005:conc-library.pdf.
• Scott Pakin. Reproducible network benchmarks with coNCePTuaL. In Proceedings of Euro-Par 2004, Pisa, Italy, August 31-September 3, 2004. Available from https://ccsweb.lanl.gov/PAL/publications/papers/Pakin2004:reproducible.pdf.
• Scott Pakin. coNCePTuaL: A network correctness and performance testing language. In Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004), Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 28-30, 2004. Available from https://ccsweb.lanl.gov/PAL/publications/papers/Pakin2004:conc-intro.pdf.

Other documentation

One of the posters in LANL's booth at SC2004 showcased how coNCePTuaL was recently utilized in practice:

• Scott Pakin. Network performance testing. Poster at SC2004 (exhibitor booth 220), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 6-12, 2004. LANL technical report LA-UR-04-7257. Available from https://ccsweb.lanl.gov/~pakin/software/conceptual/sc2004-poster.pdf.

The following colorful one-pager presents a benchmark written in C, shows how it was ported to coNCePTuaL, and lists some of of the advantages of the latter:

• Scott Pakin. Porting a C program to coNCePTuaL. LANL technical report LA-UR-05-0670. Available from https://ccsweb.lanl.gov/~pakin/software/conceptual/c-to-coNCePTuaL.pdf.