Advanced HPC-CI Webinar Series: Performance Tuning and Optimization

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST

This event will be held remotely.

This webinar is an abbreviated version of the Performance Tuning session that is offered at SDSC’s HPC and Data Science Summer Institute. It is targeted at attendees who do their own code development and need their calculations to finish as quickly as possible. We will cover the effective use of cache, loop-level optimizations, force reductions, optimizing compilers and their limitations, short-circuiting, time-space tradeoffs and more. Exercises will be done mostly in C, but emphasis will be on general techniques that can be applied in any language.

Instructor

Robert Sinkovits

Director of Education and Training, SDSC

Dr. Sinkovits leads the education and training efforts at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he has been a computational scientist for more than 25 years. He has collaborated with researchers spanning many fields including physics, chemistry, astronomy, structural biology, finance, ecology, climate, immunology, and the social sciences, always with an emphasis on making the most effective use of high-performance computing resources. Dr. Sinkovits is the PI for the COMPLECS CyberTraining project and co-PI for the Voyager and Expanse supercomputer awards.