HP Caliper 5.3 User Guide (5900-1558, February 2011)

• Diagnostics view
• Help view
As is typical of most GUIs, the HP Caliper GUI lets you reconfigure, resize, and reposition all of
the views to suit your needs. Views that are not currently needed can be closed (and reopened
when needed) to make more room for others.
Here is an example of the GUI window showing most of the views, slightly rearranged from their
default locations:
Figure 4 HP Caliper GUI
Projects View
The Projects view helps you manage your performance information by storing it in projects. A
project consists of one or more folders and can contain two types of information:
• Collection specifications
• Measurement runs
A project is stored in a directory called a workspace.
A collection specification, represented by , is all the information used to make a measurement.
A measurement run folder, represented by , contains information about the types of data available
for a single measurement run. It can also contain the collection specification used to collect the
data in the folder. This allows you to easily rerun a measurement.
You can save collection specifications without collecting data by selecting the menu item File→Save
Collection Specification As. Collection specifications saved separately from collection runs are
stored in a folder in your project. This folder is called Saved Collection Specifications, represented
by .
A dataset is a set of performance data collected by a single HP Caliper measurement run. Examples
of datasets are: Run Summary, Memory Usage, Process Tree, Histogram, Call Graph, and so forth.
32 Getting Started with the HP Caliper GUI