Software Performance Project

Summary:

The mission of the Software Performance project is to strengthen the scientific foundations of software performance measurement ("metrology for IT").

Description:

Its goals are:

Application: Replace unreliable common practices with rigorously-studied methods grounded in design of experiments
Research: Solve measurement challenges created by the evolution and increased complexity of commodity hardware
Transfer: Feed improved methods back into the community of practice

Major Accomplishments:

Test Suite for Validating Application Profiling Tools, Version 1.2

Spin: x86_64 Linux, GCC
Spin: x86_64 Windows, Intel Toolset (Composer XE 2013, VTune Amplifier XE 2013)

Selected Publications

Configuration of profiling tools for C/C++ applications under 64-bit Linux

Lead Organizational Unit:

itl

Staff:

David Flater
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Software and Systems Division, Mail Stop 8970
Gaithersburg, MD 20899

William F. Guthrie
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Statistical Engineering Division, Mail Stop 8970
Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Associated Products:

Raw Data and Table Generator for, "A Case Study of Performance Degradation Attributable to Run-Time Bounds Checks on C++ Vector Access" - publication submitted.