HPC systems are massively parallel and therefore sophisticated parallel programs are required to exploit their performance potential as much as possible, including but not limited to modeling the I/O performance.

• Describe how the performance of parallel programs may be assessed.
• Describe bounds for the performance of parallel programs.
• Describe different performance characteristics.

• K2.1 Performance Frontiers
• K2.2 Bounds for a Parallel Program
• K2.3 Performance Characteristics