The Comparison Message Profile is very similar to the regular Message Profile. The values shown in the cells are calculated using the currently selected comparison operation shown in the title of the Chart. You can switch the comparison operation from the context menu or from the settings dialog. If the comparison operation makes use of A and B and only one of the values is present for a given cell, this cell is labeled with

A

or

B

to indicate for which trace file the data is present. If there is no data at all, the cell is empty.  

Some groupings depend on the mapping rules in which they either use processes, process groups or communicators as row or column labels. If differing labels are mapped onto the same column or row, then the label is made up of two lines with the first line holding the label for file A and the second for file B. This can happen for the groupings

Sender

,

Receiver

,

Sender/Receiver

and

Communicator

.

For example, see the Comparison Message Profile with

poisson_sendrecv.single.stf

as run A and

poisson_icomm.single.stf

as run B:

There can be cases where a whole row or column does not apply to one of the traces. In these cases the double line label holds

A missing

or

B missing

. This can happen for the groupings

Sender

,

Receiver

and

Sender/Receiver

that may have unmappable TGroups in the labels, or for groupings like

Tag

,

Communicator

or

Volume

that directly depend on the data that is present in the trace. You can use the Comparison Message Profile

Settings

dialog box to suppress such rows and columns, but they are shown by default.

The Comparison Message Profile context menu contains all the entries of the regular Message Profile context menu with the addition of the

Comparison Operation

entry, from the submenu of which you can select the type of comparison operation.

The Comparison Message Profile

Settings

dialog box has all the entries of the regular Message Profile Settings. But its

Preferences

tab has two additional check boxes to suppress rows or columns that only apply to one trace, and the

Data

tab has an additional combo box to choose the comparison operation: