assess speedups and efficiencies as the key measures for benchmarks of a parallel program

differentiate between strong and weak scaling

assess the performance characteristics of parallel programs with regard to CPU usage, memory accesses (e.g. latencies for random access, cache sizes, strided access patterns, and bandwidth), I/O operations (e.g. record length, IOPs, latency, bandwidth, throughput, and multi-stream processing), and communication (message sizes, network bandwidth and latency)