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Roofline

Samuel Williams, Andrew Waterman, David A. Patterson

Communications of the ACM · 2009 · 2.4K citations · 21 references

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Concepts

ComputingComputer EngineeringComputer ScienceComputer ArchitectureHardware-software Co-designSoftware EngineeringPerformance ModelingSoftware ArchitectureSoftware DesignSoftware ModelingHardware Performance ModelingRoofline AnalysisRoofline Model

Abstract

The Roofline model offers insight on how to improve the performance of software and hardware.

References

21

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