Understanding Performance

• FLOPs are not FLOPs

• Relative performance to what?

• To understand performance

  • hardware (cpu, memory subsystems, interconnects)
  • software (compilers, libraries, tools)
  • mapping of one to the other
  • existing similar, but tuned implementations
  • 
    What is necessary to the scientist?

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