½-1 day course to help you understand why & where your computer models may not use every available CPU cycle and what you can do about it. We focus on examining serial codes with hands-on examples to help you spot and correct performance issues in a FORTRAN code. For the full day version, we also cover looking at performance issues with parallel codes that use OpenMP or MPI. Profilers covered include gprof/gcov, TAU, Allinea MAP/Forge and Intel Parallel Studio (depending which is available at your institution).

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• designing and writing efficient programs
• the art of compilation (and how to use compilers to tell you what they're not doing but could be with your hints)
• introduction to using OpenMP to make the most of your multicore desktop
• introduction to MPI for multi-node processing (and for Xeon Phi)
• introduction to measuring the energy consumed by your model simulation for #greenerCompute