What every scientist should know about computer architecture

Introduction

• Puzzle
• A more thorough benchmark

A digression in CPU architecture and the memory hierarchy

• A Primer in CPU architecture
• Measure size and timings for the memory hierarchy on my machine with a low level C benchmark

Back to the Python benchmark (second try)

Anatomy of a numpy array

• memory layout of numpy arrays

Analog programming

• Two exercises to activate the body and the mind

Back to the Python benchmark (third try)

A final exercise to put it all together

• fork this repo to your account and clone your fork on the laptop
• create a branch ex and switch to it
• work on the exercise
• push your solution to your fork and create a Pull Request to this repo

Concluding remarks

Notes on the benchmarks

Additional material if there's time left

• Excerpts of parallel Python