Imperial College London

DrHolgerPirk

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Computing

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
//

Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 3008pirk Website

 
 
//

Location

 

431Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

//

Summary

 

System Performance Engineering - COMP70075

Aims

Performance engineering is the area of computer science ensuring that computer systems (comprised of hardware as well as software) are responsive, scalable, and efficient.  The course aims at introducing fundamental principles and techniques used in performance management of modern computer systems, either purpose-built applications or generic system (single-node as well as distributed). In particular, in this module you will have the opportunity to learn to:

  • Design, conduct and interpret a meaningful performance assesments for a given system or application through benchmarking, monitoring and profiling
  • Provision computing resources to meet performance requirements for a given system or application
  • Resolve performance bottlenecks in software and hardware systems using the appropriate tools and techniques
  • Trade-off different resources for each-other to achieve balance in their utilization

Role

Course Leader

Data Processing Systems - COMP60029

Aims

In this module you will have the opportunity to:
- advance your knowledge of data-structures and algorithms to data-processing algorithms and  applications
- acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of data processing systems design and implementation for correct results and (close-to) optimal performance
- understand how Database Management Systems (DBMSs) optimize query performance
- understand Data Processing System tuning
- explore challenges & opportunities of cloud-native Data Processing Systems
- explore research directions such as Big Data or data management on modern hardware

Role

Course Leader

System Performance Engineering - COMP60017

Aims

Performance engineering is the area of computer science ensuring that computer systems (comprised of hardware as well as software) are responsive, scalable, and efficient.  The course aims at introducing fundamental principles and techniques used in performance management of modern computer systems, either purpose-built applications or generic system (single-node as well as distributed). In particular, in this module you will have the opportunity to learn to:

  • Design, conduct and interpret a meaningful performance assesments for a given system or application through benchmarking, monitoring and profiling
  • Provision computing resources to meet performance requirements for a given system or application
  • Resolve performance bottlenecks in software and hardware systems using the appropriate tools and techniques
  • Trade-off different resources for each-other to achieve balance in their utilization

Role

Course Leader