This course will provide an overview of profiling serial and parallel performance. Attendees will gain familiarity with those concepts necessary to characterize program performance for a computing allocation request. Topics to be covered include: Timing functions available in C++ and Fortran, commonly used profiling tools, the concepts of strong and weak scaling, and vectorization.

Attendees should have a basic knowledge of Linux as a prerequisite. Please bring a laptop with a Secure Shell (SSH) client software installed on it to each session.

For course materials, please visit https://github.com/ResearchComputing/HPC_Short_Course_Fall_2018

To access the course: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/4239862482