The course “Getting the best out of multi-core” held at CSCS in Lugano on December 10-12, 2012 is now available on video » . There were 20 participants for the three-day hands-on oriented course to show how to get the most out of Intel Sandy Bridge and AMD Interlagos processors by investigating the following:
- Code vectorization
- Understanding processor architecture and the potential speedup from vectorization
- Using compiler feedback to understand where vectorization is and is not achieved
- Using compiler feedback, compiler options and pragmas to improve vectorization
- Tuning for the cache hierarchy
- Understanding the cache and memory hierarchy on modern multi-core processors
- Analysing performance reports to determine poor cache utilisation
- Code changes and compiler options to improve cache utilisation
- Multi-threading
- An example of a threading model – OpenMP
- Use of tools to help produce multi-threaded code
- Understanding of threading pitfalls that affect code correctness
- Understanding of threading performance issues on multi-socket multi-core nodes
The material of the courses held at CSCS is available also on CSCS user portal ».