Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications

<p>With contributions from some of the most notable experts in the field <strong>Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications</strong> presents current research in performance analysis. The book focuses on the following areas.</p><p></p><p><em>Performance monitoring</em>: Describes the state of the art in hardware and software tools that are commonly used for monitoring and measuring performance and managing large quantities of data </p><p></p><p><em>Performance analysis:</em> Discusses modern approaches to computer performance benchmarking and presents results that offer valuable insight into these studies</p><p></p><p><em>Performance modeling:</em> Explains how researchers deduce accurate performance models from raw performance data or from other high-level characteristics of a scientific computation</p><p></p><p><em>Automatic performance tuning:</em> Explores ongoing research into automatic and semi-automatic techniques for optimizing computer programs to achieve superior performance on any computer platform</p><p></p><p><em>Application tuning:</em> Provides examples that show how the appropriate analysis of performance and some deft changes have resulted in extremely high performance</p><p></p><p>Performance analysis has grown into a full-fledged sophisticated field of empirical science. Describing useful research in modern performance science and engineering this book helps real-world users of parallel computer systems to better understand both the performance vagaries arising in scientific applications and the practical means for improving performance.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Read about the book on <a href=http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/New-Computer-Science-Book-Explores-Performance-Analysis-117962689.html?page=1>HPCwire</a> and <a href=http://insidehpc.com/2011/03/14/new-book-examines-performance-tuning-of-scientific-applications/>insideHPC</a></em></strong></p>