Webinar 010: Using the Roofline Model and Intel Advisor
Channel: IDEAS Productivity
Date: 30/08/2017

Presenter: Sam Williams, LBNL
Presented: 2017-08-16

In this webinar, we will begin by introducing the Roofline Model and its “Cache-Aware” variant. We will proceed with some general guidelines and historical approaches to Roofline-based program analysis. Next, we will provide a short discussion of how changes in data locality and arithmetic intensity of two canonical benchmarks visually manifest in the context of these two Roofline formulations. Subsequently, we will provide two demonstrations of using Intel Advisor and the Roofline model within Intel Advisor. The first demo will be primarily instructive on how to compile, benchmark, and use Advisor. The second demo will focus on using variants of a simple benchmark to highlight changes in the Roofline model as well as providing correlation to Advisor’s other capabilities. We will conclude with a few comments on future directions.

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