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Performance tools Pt2 - static vs dynamic linking

Welcome to the world of dynamically linked libraries and all the fun involved in predicting - and then manipulating - which libraries your binaries see and use … all so you can get the results and performance you expect. Dr Stephen …

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Performance tools Pt 1 - binutils and friends

Welcome to the world of dynamically linked libraries and all the fun involved in predicting - and then manipulating - which libraries your binaries see and use … all so you can get the results and performance you expect. Dr Stephen …

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Hpc7a performance tweaks you'll want to know about

Looking to maximize performance on AWS’s latest HPC instances? Today we dive into the technical details of how the hpc7a instance type is architected. Stephen Sachs from our HPC performance engineering team explains how understanding …

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WRF performance teardown on Graviton vs x86

(A complete teardown of WRF performance on x86 and AWS Graviton, from memory subsystems, compilers and MPI stacks). Weather simulation is a reliably difficult workload for almost any HPC architecture and is often used as a litmus test by …

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