therooflinemodelapedagogicaltoolforprogramanalysis.pptVIP

The Roofline Model:A pedagogical tool for program analysis and optimization ParLab Summer Retreat Samuel Williams, David Patterson samw@cs.berkeley.edu Motivation Performance and scalability of multicore architectures can be extremely non-intuitive to novice programmers Success of the multicore paradigm should be premised on augmenting the abilities of the world’s programmers Goals Audience Focused on: rates and efficiencies (Gflop/s, % of peak), Goals for Roofline: Provide everyone with a graphical aid that provides: realistic expectations of performance and productivity Show in