ZFS Tuning for HPC
The ZFS filesystem and volume manager simplifies data storage management and offers advanced features that allow it to perform in mission-critical or high-performance environments.
Building and Running Containers
Best practices for building and running Docker and Singularity containers.
Initial Best Practices for Containers
Consider some best practices before diving into containers.
Building a Virtual NVMe Drive
An economical and high-performing hybrid NVMe SSD is exported to host servers that use it as a locally attached NVMe device.
Profiling Python Code
Profiling Python code – as a whole or by function – shows where you should spend time speeding up your programs.
Linux device mapper writecache
Kicking write I/O operations into overdrive with the Linux device mapper writecache.
High-Performance Python – Distributed Python
Scale Python GPU code to distributed systems and your laptop.
High-Performance Python – GPUs
Python finally has interoperable tools for programming the GPU – with or without CUDA.
High-Performance Python – Compiled Code and Fortran Interface
Fortran functions called from Python bring complex computations to a scriptable language.