Goals

• Describe what an optimizing compiler can optimize for you

• Describe what an optimizing compiler can't optimize for you

• Understand how linear algebra libraries acheive peak performance through memory access pattern

• Describe interaction between global variables and type stability of functions

• Explain why parallelism in increasingly important

• Describe function overloading & multiple dispatch

• Describe benefits of use abstract types and containers of abstract types

• Describe benefits of an Application Programming Interface

Project

• Second parallel implementation of class project (typically using distributed-memory or GPU)

Lab

Lab 9: Reproducibility: Packages, Environments, Containers & the Cloud (due Nov 14)

• Exercise 1: Create a Julia Package

• Exercise 2: Use a Workflow management system

• Exercise 3: Reflect on your Goals for the semester

Readings

• None

Additional Resources

• Week 13 Class Discussion: Cloud Computing