Performance Optimization of Numerically Intensive Codes (Software, Environments and Tools, Series Number 12) - Softcover

Goedecker, Stefan; Hoisie, Adolfy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898714842 ISBN 13: 9780898714845

Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1987

Synopsis

Performance Optimization of Numerically Intensive Codes offers a comprehensive, tutorial-style, hands-on, introductory and intermediate-level treatment of all the essential ingredients for achieving high performance in numerical computations on modern computers. The authors explain computer architectures, data traffic and issues related to performance of serial and parallel code optimization exemplified by actual programs written for algorithms of wide interest. The unique hands-on style is achieved by extensive case studies using realistic computational problems. The performance gain obtained by applying the techniques described in this book can be very significant. The book bridges the gap between the literature in system architecture, the one in numerical methods and the occasional descriptions of optimization topics in computer vendors' literature. It also allows readers to better judge the suitability of certain computer architecture to their computational requirements.

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Audience

This book will be useful to scientists, engineers and students interested in computational science and high-performance programming. It can be used as a reference book by the practitioner and as basic material for various undergraduate and graduate classes in computer and computational science. Readers should be familiar with a programming language such as Fortran or C.

About the Author

Stefan Goedecker is a Staff Scientist in the department of basic condensed matter research with the Atomic Energy Commission in Grenoble, France. He is a two-time winner of the Gordon Bell Prize in parallel computing, in 1994 and jointly with Adolfy Hoisie in 1996. He is the author of numerous research articles as well as several review articles and a book in the field of physics and computational sciences.

Adolfy Hoisie is a Staff Scientist and the Leader of the Parallel Architectures and Performance Team in the Computer and Computational Sciences division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. His areas of research are performance analysis and modeling, distributed computing, and parallel computer architectures, areas in which he has published extensively.

Edition details

• Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0898714842
• ISBN 13: 9780898714845
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 184