Performance Issues in Parallel Processing Systems

Simply put, the goal of performance analysis is to provide the data and insights required to optimize the execution behavior of application or system components. Using such data and insights, application and system developers can choose to optimize software and execution environments along many axes, including execution time, memory requirements, and resource use. Given the diversity of performance optimization goals and the wide range of possible problems, a complete performance analysis toolkit necessarily includes a broad range of techniques. These range from mechanisms for simple code timings to multi-level hardware/software measurement and correlation across networks, system software, runtime libraries, compile-time code transformations, and adaptive execution.

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