This course covers performance engineering approaches at the compute node level.
Even application developers who are fluent in OpenMP and MPI often lack a good grasp of how much performance could be achieved at best by their code. This is because parallelism takes us only half the way to good performance. Even worse, slow serial code tends to scale very well, hiding the fact that resources are wasted. This course conveys the required knowledge to develop 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.