Webinar: Introduction to parallel performance engineering
This beginner-friendly webinar provides an introductory overview of performance engineering in high-performance computing. Attendees will gain an understanding of the key performance factors in parallel applications and general workflow that can be employed to analyse and enhance performance. Participants will also be introduced to the concepts of profiling and tracing as essential tools for understanding programme behaviour. This session is intended for those new to the field who wish to develop a foundational understanding of how to approach performance analysis and optimisation in HPC.
This webinar was held June 2, 2026 and it’s the first part of a Webinar Series on Profiling.
About the speakers:
Ilya Zhukov is a senior HPC consultant at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, with over eight years’ experience supporting users of large-scale HPC systems. He has been closely involved in the POP CoE, SiVeGCS and EPICURE projects at JSC, providing hands-on support to researchers across diverse scientific domains. His primary focus is on helping users exploit HPC systems efficiently and improve the performance and scalability of their applications.
Michael Knobloch obtained his diploma in Mathematics from TU Dresden in 2008. He joined Jülich Supercomputing Center at Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2009 where he works as a HPC performance engineer ever since. His research interests include, but are not limited to, performance and energy consumption analysis of large-scale HPC systems and applications and the development of corresponding tools. He is an active member of the MPI forum and regularly gives courses about parallel programming and performance analysis.
About the moderator:
António Sousa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Minho and a Senior Researcher at the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) at INESC TEC, where he serves as Co-coordinator. His research interests focus on dependable distributed systems, with particular application to distributed database systems, large-scale distributed systems, cloud computing management, and high-performance computing — notably on topics related to the management and efficiency of HPC systems. He serves as Director of Operations of the EuroHPC Deucalion supercomputer, hosted by the National Center for Advanced Computing, and Portugal’s national HPC flagship infrastructure, playing a central role in its operation and strategic development. He has been involved in several European HPC projects, RISC2, EUROCC1 and 2 and currently in EPICURE and HANAMI.
