This material was presented by Richard (Rich) Vuduc at the terrific SPPEXA 2016 Symposium, held January 25-27 in Munich, Germany.

• [PDF slides (~ 26 MiB)] “Performance understanding.”

Your public critiques (and praise) are welcome: @hpcgarage

Additional links to some of the papers relevant to this talk:

• K. Czechowski et al. “Improving the energy efficiency of big cores. In ISCA'14.
• O. Green, M. Dukhan, R. Vuduc. “Branch-avoiding graph algorithms.” In SPAA'15.
• A. Davidson, S. Baxter, M. Garland, J. Owens. “Work-efficient parallel GPU methods for single-source shortest paths.” In IPDPS'14.