Overview

Welcome to the Performance Analysis workshop

With every new generation of computers, we see the gap between the theoretical performance of a machine and the performance that is actually delivered by applications widen. Codes struggle to exploit the hardware. It has therefore become critical that researchers and research software engineers understand how well and why codes use the machinery as they do. Insight into performance behaviour can drive the code evolution and ultimately become the means through which future advancement through computing are facilitated.

This workshop series offers a comprehensive introduction to a selection of open source tools that enable researchers to assess and improve the performance behaviour of their code, such as:

• Intel APS
• Intel VTune Profiler
• MAQAO, and
• Other open source tools.