I was asked by the people from Zeus WPI to give a talk on benchmarking, since students need to both test and measure the code they write for several courses and apparently there still is no course which teaches people how to conduct experiments. Being the yes-saying fool that I am, I agreed and figured out what to talk about. It turned out there are a lot of things I would like students to become more familiar with. In the end I ended up dismissing a number of more technical things, preferring to talk about as many subjects as I could.
I have made the slides (in Dutch) available in PDF format. Ignore the jokes if you do not grok them.
Thanks Zeus, for the Grimbergen bottles. I will make them count.
Tags: analysis, benchmarks, performance, presentation