Performance Analysis and Modelling

• Courses

• Books/Resources

• Articles

Courses

• MIT 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems

Books/Resources

• Algorithms for Modern Hardware

• Performance explained easy blog

Articles

• SIMD Parallelism

• Towards Fearless SIMD

• Myths CPU programmers believe about caches

• Prof. Mark Hill note argues for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl's Law: Bottleneck Analysis, Little's Law, and a M/M/1 Queue.

• How much bandwidth does the L2 have to give, anyway?

• Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup

• Computer Latency at a Human Scale

• Latency numbers every programmer should know

• Performance variations in 2386 identical processors

• Memory Bandwidth: Napkin math

• Analyzing and Debugging Performance Issues with Advanced ARM CoreLink System IP Components

• SoC Interconnect Analysis

• Why on-chip networks are important?

• How to measure System Performance?

• Understanding Complexities

• Performance Analysis of Multi-threaded applications for beginners

• Multithread vs Multiprocess

• Offline Optimization for Architecting Hardware Accelerators