Will Cohen

Teaching

• NC State University CSC 591W - Open Source Software Development
• NC State University CSC 591W - Open Source Software Development wiki

Presentations

• GCC: From Source Code to Executable
• Linux on Hand-Held Devices
• Performance Characterization and Tuning with OProfile
• GNU Compiler Collection's New Optimization Infrastructure: Tree SSA
• Performance Benchmarking
• "So You Would like to Contribute to Open Source..."
• Dynamic Linux Kernel Instrumentation with SystemTap

Performance Tools

• OProfile, a low-overhead system-wide profiler
• OProfile FAQ for Red Hat Distributions
• Tutorials:
  • OProfile RHEL 3 Tutorial
  • OProfile Fedora Core 2 Tutorial
  • OProfile Fedora Core 6 Tutorial
  • Analyzing Kernel Modules Data in OProfile in RHEL3
  • Analyzing Kernel Modules Data in OProfile in Fedora Core 3/4 and RHEL4
  • opreport_module script to implement module analysis
• Articles:
  • Tuning Programs with OProfile in Wide Open Magazine
  • Using OProfile to analyze an RPM package build in Red Hat Magazine
• Example Applications:
  • Multiple Architecture Characterization of the Linux Build Process with OProfile
• Valgrind, a binary rewrite instrumentation tool
• Generating instruction length traces for NCSU ECE 463 (spring 2005)
• ldreorder a NCSU ECE senior design project to reorder functions in executables to improve cache and paging characteristics
• SystemTap, a dynamic instrumentation tool
• Articles:
• Gaining insight into the Linux with Kprobes in Red Hat Magazine
• Instrumenting the Linux Kernel with SystemTap in Red Hat Magazine
• Japanese Translation of "Instrumenting the Linux Kernel with SystemTap" from Red Hat Magazine
• SystemTap Testing:
• How to generate test coverage information on SystemTap
• Test coverage of SystemTap Tests (March 12 2008)

Performance Tuning Books and Articles

• AMD Athlon Processor X86 Code Optimization Guide, February 2002, AMD Publication 22007.
• Software Optimization Guide for AMD Family 10h Processors, April 2008, AMD Publication 40546.
• AMD Developer Central - Software Optimziation Video Series
• Steve Best, Linux Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques, Prentice Hall, 2006, ISBN: 0131492470.
• Kevin Dowd and Charles Severance, High Performance Computing, Second Edition, O'Reily & Associates, 1998, ISBN: 1-56592-312-X.
• Paul J. Drongowski, Basic Performance Measurements for AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron Processor AMD Athlon Processor X86 Code Optimization Guide, Dec 2006, AMD.
• Richard Gerber, The Software Optimization Cookbook, Intel Press, 2002, ISBN: 0-9712887-1-2.
• Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual, November 2007, Intel Order number 248966-016.
• Intel Itanium 2 Processor Reference Manual for Software Development and Optimization, June 2002, Intel Document 251110-002.
• Kevin R. Wadleigh and Isom L. Crawford, Software Optimization for High Performance Computing, Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN: 0-13-017008-9.

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