Course material for the CSC course "Node Level Performance Optimization". The course is part of PRACE Training Center (PTC) activity at CSC. The most recent version of the course is found in the master branch, previous versions can be found in Tags.

Lecture slides are found in the course web page

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• General instructions

• Performance limits

• Getting started with CSC supercomputers

• Using Intel VTune

• Improving performance through vectorization

• Loop interchange
• Cache blocking

• Fast mathematics
• Branch prediction

• OpenMP tasks

• Simple thread affinity
• Thread affinity in heat equation