Automatic Performance Engineering Workflows for High Performance Computing
Ventsislav Petkov · mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich) · 2014
Acknowledgments The long journey in successfully completing this dissertation has been an unforgettable experi-ence for me. Looking back, there are a number of people without whom this work might not have been written and whose tremendous support I greatly appreciate. I would like to express my greatest gratitude to Professor Michael Gerndt for his insightful guidance, valuable support and unmitigated encouragement through my doctoral studies. I am thankful to him for giving me the complete freedom to follow my research and constantly pro-viding me with insightful comments and suggestions. Furthermore, I would like to thank him for giving me the great chance to work in such a supportive environment like the Chair of Computer Architecture (LRR) at Technische Universität München (TUM). I would also like to offer my special thanks to my second supervisor, Professor Felix Wolf, for his time reviewing this dissertation. I am also very grateful to him for giving me the opportunity to be part of the leading Virtual Institute- High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS) and to work within the Performance Dynamics of Massively Parallel Codes (LMAC) project. Furthermore, I like to express my gratitude to all my friends and colleagues at LRR-TUM for