6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems
6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems (Fall 2010, MIT OCW). Instructors: Professor Saman Amarasinghe and Professor Charles Leiserson. This course is a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and high-performance software systems. Topics include performance analysis, algorithmic techniques for high performance, instruction-level optimizations, cache and memory hierarchy optimization, parallel programming, and building scalable distributed systems. (from ocw.mit.edu)
| Lecture 01 - Matrix Multiply: A Case Study |
Introduction to course, administrative information. Lecture covering matrix multiply as a case study, including matrix representation, performance counters, instruction level optimizations, and parallel execution.
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