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Best Practice Guides

Efficient use of the PRACE Tier-0 systems requires detailed knowledge of architecture-specific factors influencing performance, including compilers, tools and libraries. The guides we offer, represent best practices on how to achieve good performance on these systems. We also added guides for current Tier-1 systems representing potential Tier-0 architectures.

Note: these are initial versions of the best practice guides.

Topics for the best practice guides (will) include: optimal porting of applications (e.g., choice of numerical libraries and compiler options); architecture-specific optimisation and petascaling techniques; optimal system environment (e.g., tuneable system parameters, job placement and optimised system libraries); debuggers, performance analysis tools and programming environment.