Roofline: an insightful visual performance model for multicore architectures

Reading group: Mickaël Boichot presented « Roofline: an insightful visual performance model for multicore architectures » (Communications of the ACM, 2009) at 4A312 the 16/9/2022 at 11h00.

Abstract

We propose an easy-to-understand, visual performance model that
offers insights to programmers and architects on improving
parallel software and hardware for floating point computations