The hands-on guide to high-performance coding and algorithm optimization.

This hands-on guide to software optimization introduces state-of-the-art solutions for every key aspect of software performance - both code-based and algorithm-based.

Two leading HP software performance experts offer comparative optimization strategies for RISC and for the new Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design used in Intel IA-64 processors. Using many practical examples, they offer specific techniques for:

• Predicting and measuring performance - and identifying your best optimization opportunities
• Storage optimization: cache, system memory, virtual memory, and I/0
• Parallel processing: distributed-memory and shared-memory (SMP and ccNUMA)
• Compilers and loop optimization
• Enhancing parallelism: compiler directives, threads, and message passing
• Mathematical libraries and algorithms

Whether you're a developer, ISV, or technical researcher, if you need to optimize high-performance software on today's leading processors, one book delivers the advanced techniques and code examples you need: Software Optimization for High Performance Computing.