2016 Blue Waters Symposium: Tutorials

Blue Waters experts presented tips and tools to help researchers improve their results using the Blue Waters supercomputer.

Tips and Tools for CPU Performance

Galen Arnold, NCSA

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Understanding Blue Waters Topology and the Topology Aware Scheduler

Jeremy Enos, NCSA

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Application MPI Task Placement

Juan Galvez Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Parallel I/O Best Practices

Andriy Kot, NCSA

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GPU Performance Nuggets

Carl Pearson and Simon Garcia De Gonzalo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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