The NCSA is offering a free web-based seminar on getting started with performance tools. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, based at the University of Illinois, is renowned for it’s expertise in the HPC-environment. Their courses and trainings are among the best in the world.
From their website:
Event Title: Getting Started with Performance Tools
Speaker: Galen Arnold, NCSA
Start Date: 2010-02-25
End Date: 2010-02-25
Start time: 13:30:00 Central Time
End time: 15:00:00 Central Time
Location: NCSA
Event Type: WebinarRegistration is required for this event. Please complete the Registration Form.
Description:
This webinar will provide an introduction to performance tools and techniques. A common application, High Performance Linpack (HPL), will be analyzed with profiling tools from a high level progressing down to how the code is mapped onto hardware. To do this, HPL will be analyzed with profiling tools for both user and system time and then a representative component of HPL (matrix multiply) from a near-the-hardware vantage point will be used to show how it can be tuned. Finally, emerging trends in performance tool development will be described.Prerequisites:
This tutorial is intended for users with basic parallel programming experience who are new to the performance engineering process.
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