Programming for Performance | ECE 459 - University of Waterloo

Learn advanced techniques for profiling, rearchitecting, and implementing high-performance software systems, including parallelization, multithreading, async I/O, and distributed computing.

Introduction

Learn techniques for profiling, rearchitecting, and implementing software systems that can handle industrial-sized inputs, and to design and build critical software infrastructure. Learn performance optimization through parallelization, multithreading, async I/O, vectorization and GPU programming, and distributed computing.

Highlights

• Profiling and rearchitecting software systems for industrial-scale inputs
• Implementing performance optimization techniques such as parallelization, multithreading, async I/O, vectorization, GPU programming, and distributed computing
• Designing and building critical software infrastructure

Recommendation

This course is recommended for students interested in developing high-performance software systems and optimizing the performance of large-scale applications. It provides practical skills and hands-on experience in advanced programming techniques for performance improvement.