Berkeley Lab Scientific Computing Seminar

Date:

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Time:

2:00pm-3:00pm

Location:

Building 70-191

Seminar Speaker:

Dr. Tim Wilkens
ACML Programmer
AMD

Title:

Tuning a High Performance Math Library for AMD64 Technology

Abstract:

This talk will focus on the design, tuning and performance evaluation of the AMD Core Math Library (ACML). ACML provides application developers with a rich set of highly tuned linear algebra routines including BLAS, LAPACK and Fourier routines. A detailed examination of AMD Opteron hardware, optimization of codes for this hardware and performance evaluation of ACML results will be presented. The tactics of cache blocking, attention to prefetching and register renaming are used in the tuning of ACML for the Opteron.

More information on ACML: http://developer.amd.com/acml.aspx

Sponsor of Seminar:

David Skinner

Scientific Computing

Contact Esmond G. Ng EGNg@lbl.gov