Performance Engineering Research Center

The Performance Engineering Research Institute (PERI) focuses on developing technologies that will enable the increasingly complex scientific application codes to run productively on the increasingly complex HEC systems. The Center encompasses three interrelated activities: (1) performance modeling and prediction, to inform and to improve performance optimization efforts and to ensure system procurements suit application workloads; (2) automatic performance optimization, to ensure that applications use high-end systems efficiently; (3) performance engineering of high profile applications, to ensure that important performance goals are achieved in the near term. The Center is a collaboration between researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Rice University, University of Maryland, University of North Carolina, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.