Monthly Archives: June 2015

Quick introduction to OCount

Posted on June 30, 2015 by

This is a post summarizing some of my effort learning to use ocount. ocount is similar to perf in the way it is used. However, it is better documented on what the events mean. The events usually have corresponding hardware … Continue reading →

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How to use srun to get an interactive node

Posted on June 29, 2015 by

This is a short post summarizing my effort to use srun to get interactive node in slurm system.

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How to use perf to measure part of a program quickly

Posted on June 28, 2015 by

This is a post summarizing how to quickly get started with perf. Specifically, how to use perf to measure part of the program execution (ignoring the parts you don’t care) quickly.

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Enable Huge Page in Linux

Posted on June 26, 2015 by

This is a post summarizing my effort to enable huge pages in Linux. I want to use huge page to test out potential performance improvement for graph applications such as PageRank and BFS. (The post is still getting updated)

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Graph Optimizations

Posted on June 5, 2015 by

This is a summary of mine reading papers on optimizations implemented for graph frameworks. The papers include two from Intel http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.07241v1.pdf http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/papers/sigmod14n.pdf And Galois http://iss.ices.utexas.edu/Publications/Papers/nguyen13.pdf And Ligra https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jshun/ligra.pdf

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Installing Intel Compiler for students

Posted on June 5, 2015 by

This is a summary of my experience installing intel icc compiler on a linux cluster for myself.

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