View source for Performance and Profiling Course, April 2013

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== Goal ==
This was a half-day course given on March 24, 2013 at SciNet, covering using profiling and performance tuning strategies using open source tools as well as Intel and Allinea tools, which are available on SciNet's GPC cluster.

==Topics (with lecture slides and recordings)==

===Profiling and performance tuning with open source tools===
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:::[[Media:Profiling.pdf|Slides]] &nbsp;/ &nbsp; [http://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/CourseVideo/Profiling/ProfilingPerformance1OpenSource/ProfilingPerformance1OpenSource.mp4 Video recording]

===Intel tools===
:::[[File:PP2-2013-FirstFrame.png|180px|link=http://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/CourseVideo/Profiling/ProfilingPerformance2IntelTools/ProfilingPerformance2IntelTools.html]]
:::[[Media:Scinet_inteltools2013.pdf|Slides]] &nbsp;/ &nbsp; [http://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/CourseVideo/Profiling/ProfilingPerformance2IntelTools/ProfilingPerformance2IntelTools.mp4 Video recording]


===Allinea MAP profiler===
:::[[File:PP3-2013-FirstFrame.png|180px|link=http://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/CourseVideo/Profiling/ProfilingPerformance3AllineaMAP/ProfilingPerformance3AllineaMAP.html]]
:::[[Media:Allineamap.pdf|Slides]] &nbsp;/ &nbsp; [http://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/CourseVideo/Profiling/ProfilingPerformance3AllineaMAP/ProfilingPerformance3AllineaMAP.mp4 Video recording]

==Links==

*[[Introduction To Performance]]
*[[Performance And Debugging Tools: GPC]] and [[Performance_And_Debugging_Tools:_TCS]]
* Dec 2010 SNUG TechTalk: [[Media:ProfillingTechTalk-Dec2010.pdf | Profiling Tools on GPC]]
* [http://cnx.org/content/col11136/latest/  High Performance Computing Book]<br />Online version of an older O'Reilly book which covers the basics of (mostly serial) programming for performance.  Covers the most important issues today very clearly.
* [http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~franzf/papers/gttse07.pdf  How to Write Fast Numerical Code ]<br />Good introduction to thinking about performance.
* [http://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/Manuals/JUMP-AIX-POWER6-AppsPerformanceTuning-wp032008.pdf Performance tuning]
* [[Media:Mpi-tuning-parameters.pdf‎ | MPI Tuning Parameters]] - SNUG TechTalk, Feb 2012