Performance and Profiling Course, April 2013

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)

Part 1: Profiling and performance tuning with open source tools

Slides  /   Video recording

Part 2: Intel tools

Slides  /   Video recording

Part 3: Allinea MAP profiler

Slides  /   Video recording

Links

• Introduction To Performance
• Performance And Debugging Tools: GPCand TCS
• Dec 2010 SNUG TechTalk: Profiling Tools on GPC
• High Performance Computing Book
  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.
• How to Write Fast Numerical Code
  Good introduction to thinking about performance.
• Performance tuning
• MPI Tuning Parameters - SNUG TechTalk, Feb 2012