Node-Level Performance Engineering
Date: | Dec 6, 2012 10:00 ? 18:00 Dec 7, 2012 09:00 ? 17:00 |
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Location: | LRZ Building, University campus Garching, near Munich Boltzmannstr. 1 Hörsaal H.E.009 |
Contents: |
This course teaches performance engineering approaches on the compute node level. ?Performance engineering? as we define it is more than employing tools to identify hotspots and bottlenecks. It is about developing a thorough understanding of the interactions between software and hardware. This process must start at the core, socket, and node level, where the code gets executed that does the actual computational work. Once the architectural requirements of a code are understood and correlated with performance measurements, the potential benefit of optimizations can often be predicted. We introduce a ?holistic? node-level performance engineering strategy, apply it to different algorithms from computational science, and also show how an awareness of the performance features of an application may lead to notable reductions in power consumption. Introduction
Practical performance analysis
Microbenchmarks and the memory hierarchy
Typical node-level software overheads
Example Problem: The 3D Jacobi solver
Example Problem: The Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM)
Example Problem: Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication
Example Problem: A backprojection algorithm for CT reconstruction
Energy & Parallel Scalability
Between each module, there is time for Questions and Answers! |
Prerequisites | Participants must have basic knowledge in programming with Fortran or C |
Language: | English |
Teacher: | Prof. Gerhard Wellen/RRZE, Dr. Georg Hager/RRZE et. al. |
Registration: | Please register via the LRZ registration form (Please choose course HNPF1W12) |