In this paper we describe the difficulties inherent in making accurate, reproducible measurements of message-passing performance. We describe some of the mistakes often made in att...
Abstract—Customizable programs and program families provide user-selectable features to allow users to tailor a program to an application scenario. Knowing in advance which featu...
Norbert Siegmund, Sergiy S. Kolesnikov, Christian ...
This paper describes a novel approach to performance analysis for parallel and distributed systems that is based on soft computing. We introduce the concept of performance score re...
Abstract. Automated online search is a powerful technique for performance diagnosis. Such a search can change the types of experiments it performs while the program is running, mak...
The computing community has long faced the problem of scientifically comparing different computers and different algorithms. When architecture, method, precision, or storage capac...