Techniques for Optimizing Applications

The book covers every stage of UltraSPARC application development and optimization, with special attention to parallel applications and the effective use of advanced performance measurement tools. Wherever applicable, sections are illustrated with code examples that show the specific benefits of the methods described. Most of the book's coverage applies to any software version, hardware product, or programming language, and can be used in both traditional and object-oriented environments. However, the book presents especially detailed coverage of techniques relevant to development with Fortran 77, Fortran 90, and C -- the leading programming languages for technical and high-performance computing.

For every developer building applications on the UltraSPARC platform using any language, especially developers of technical or high-performance computing applications in the Solaris operating environment.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Overview of Sun UltraSPARC Solaris Platforms

Chapter 3: Application Development on Solaris

Part II: Optimizing Serial Applications

Chapter 4: Measuring Program Performance

Chapter 5: Basic Compiler Optimizations

Chapter 6: Advanced Compiler Optimizations

Chapter 7: Linker and Libraries in Performance Optimization

Chapter 8: Source Code Optimization

Chapter 9: Loop Optimization

Part III: Optimizing Parallel Applications

Chapter 10: Parallel Processing Models on Solaris

Chapter 11: Parallel Performance Measurement Tools

Chapter 12: Optimization of Explicitly Threaded Programs

Chapter 13: Optimization of Programs Using Compiler Parallelization

Chapter 14: Optimization of Message-Passing Programs

Part IV: Appendices

Appendix A: Commands That Identify System Configuration Parameters

Appendix B: Architecture of UltraSPARC Microprocessor Family

Appendix C: Architecture of UltraSPARC Interconnect Family

Appendix D: Hardware Counter Performance Metrics

Appendix E: Interval Arithmetic Support in Forte Developer 6 Fortran 95 Compiler

Appendix F: Differences in I/O Performance

References

Index