1. Introduction / David H. Bailey -- 2. Parallel computer architecture / Samuel W. Williams and David H. Bailey -- 3. Software interfaces to hardware counters / Shirley V. Moore, Daniel K. Terpstra, and Vincent M. Weaver -- 4. Measurement and analysis of parallel program performance using TAU and HPCToolkit / Allen D. Malony, John Mellor-Crummey, and Sameer S. Shende -- 5. Trace-based tools / Jesus Labarta -- 6. Large-scale numerical simulations on high-end computational platforms / Leonid Oliker. [et al.] -- 7. Performance modeling : the convolution approach / David H. Bailey, Allan Snavely, and Laura Carrington -- 8. Analytic modeling for memory access patterns based on Apex-MAP / Erich Strohmaier, Hongzhang Shan, and Khaled Ibrahim -- 9. The roofline model / Samuel W. Williams -- 10. End-to-end auto-tuning with active harmony / Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth and Ananta Tiwari -- 11. Languages and compilers for auto-tuning / Mary Hall and Jacqueline Chame -- 12. Empirical performance tuning of dense linear algebra software / Jack Dongarra and Shirley Moore -- 13. Auto-tuning memory-intensive kernels for multicore / Samuel W. Williams. [et al.] -- 14. Flexible tools supporting a scalable first-principles MD code / Bronis R. de Supinski, Martin Schulz, and Erik W. Draeger -- 15. The community climate system model / Patrick H. Worley -- 16. Tuning an electronic structure code / David H. Bailey. [et al.].