I have been involved in HPC for over 30 years: 12 years as student & faculty user in ocean modeling, 12 years as a performance analyst and system architect at SGI, IBM, and AMD, and over 7 years as a research scientist at TACC. This history is based on my… read more
STREAM benchmark
Invited Talk at SuperComputing 2016!
“Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” If you are planning to attend the SuperComputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City next month, be sure to reserve a spot on your calendar for my talk on Wednesday afternoon (4:15pm-5:00pm). I will be talking about the technology and market trends… read more
Memory Bandwidth on Xeon Phi (Knights Corner)
A Quick Note There are a lot of topics that could be addressed here, but this short note will focus on bandwidth from main memory (using the STREAM benchmark) as a function of the number of threads used. Published STREAM Bandwidth Results Official STREAM submission at: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/stream_mail/2013/0015.html Compiled with icc… read more