Speaker
Ana Lucia Varbanescu
Description
“Computation” has become a massive part of our daily lives; even more so, in science, a lot of experiments and analysis rely on massive computation. Under the assumption that computation is cheap, and time-to-result is the only relevant metric for all of us, we currently use computational resources at record-low efficiency.
In this talk, I argue this approach is an unacceptable waste of computing resources. I further define the goal of zero-waste computing and discuss how performance engineering methods and techniques can facilitate this goal. By means of a couple of case-studies, I will also demonstrate performance engineering at work, proving how efficiency and time-to-result can co-exist.
