Provides an API for performing distance analysis in a parallel application.

This code is largely based on the work of Sherwood, Perelman, Hamerly and Calder, in their paper "Automatically Characterizing Large Scale Program Behavior", 2002. In that paper, they describe the algorithm for calculating distance metrics between phases of a serial executable. In this implementation, the phases are replaced by threads or events. Instead of comparing blocks of code to find phases of execution, the user can compare either threads or events. See the referenced paper for more details.

## Package Specification

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## Related Documentation

For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:

- TestPerfDMFSession.java

@see edu.uoregon.tau.dms.dss.PerfDMFSession @see edu.uoregon.tau.dms.analysis.DistanceAnalysis @since 0.1