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Profiling & tuning

A three-part lecture series covering the basics concepts of profiling and tuning on HPC clusters.

Part I

Topics covered include profiling tools Intel® ISAT and Intel® Vtune™ Amplifier XE Evolution. (slides) (video)

Part II

Topics covered include performance counters, profiling tools such as PAPI, TAU, HPCToolkit, PerfExpert, and high performance parallel libraries such as BLAS, LAPACK, ATLAS, Intel MKL and ACML (AMD core math library). (slides) (video)

Part III

Topics covered include autotuning, dependence analysis and loop transformation including a demonstration of ISAT (Intel Software Autotuning Tool) visualized with Gnuplot. (slides) (video)