Quick Tips For Performance Analysis and Tuning

NCSA Performance Analysis Tips

Frequently Used Tools and Methods for Performance Analysis and Tuning on SGI systems

This page is your link to fast but detailed information on how to measure your code's performance on the SGI Origin2000 system, understand what those measurements mean, ask us for help, and even contribute (send email to straka@ncsa.uiuc.edu) your results to our database. Here you will find the information necessary for the characterization and enhancement of large application codes.

For more information on NCSA's computing systems, check the hardware pages maintained by the Scientific Computing Division. Additional information on SGI performance is available from Boston University's SGI-Cray Origin2000 Supercomputer Repository.

Explore Performance Analysis for the SGI Origin2000!

See the complete Performance Tuning Optimization for Origin2000 and Onyx2 pages offered by SGI, or read our shortened version of this information that we call the Performance Issues and Programming Methods for the SGI Origin2000 covering these topics:

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We want your numbers!

Would you like to contribute your results to us? If you have compiled any tables of performance data for your application and would like to add these to our online database, please email your data to Mark Straka, straka@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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