CS 575: Machine Performance

What is it?

Computing time, accuracy delivered

How to measure?

Unix timers for CPU,

Preliminary computational experiment

with known answer & therefore known error

How to describe?

Bottom-up design of computational experiment

laboratory report (focus on the conclusions)

How to construct computational experiments?

What can be computed? Reliably?

Reproducibility?

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