Section outline

  • This one-day course covers a spectrum of questions and issues that have been raised by FRASCAL PhD students. 

    Time and date: Friday, September 15, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

    Room: CSC 0.02-142, Martensstr. 5a, 91058 Erlangen

    Attendees are encouraged to watch this introductory video for preparation:

    These topics will be covered rather quickly in the general introduction (see below), but there will be ample time for Q&A, of course.


    Tentative agenda

    • General intro, Q&A (60 min)
      • Computer architecture intro, bottlenecks
      • Performance vs. scalabilty, scaling laws
      • NHR@FAU clusters + file systems
    • Performance assessment with tools (90 min)
      • Typical performance patterns
      • ClusterCockpit job monitoring
      • likwid-perfctr
        • Demo: analyzing a preconditioned  CG solver
    • Introduction to the Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector (30 min)
      • Demo: analyzing a simple ray tracer code
    • Hints and strategies for code performance and scalability optimization (60 min)