"perform higher" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used when trying to motivate someone to achieve or accomplish something at a higher level than before. For example, "The CEO was pushing the team to perform higher in order to stay competitive in the industry."
In order to perform higher precision measurements, an upgrade of the ANU accelerator is underway.
Children in the proactive group did perform higher in measures of lung capacity, meaning they had better control of their asthma.
Integration is achieved through understanding the capabilities of the systems, combining basic elements together to perform higher functions, and using imagination.
Finally, the FeAlPO4-5 turned out to perform higher thiophene desulfurization rate against AlPO4-5 and impregnated sample, which can be related to the improvement in the adsorption ability and reactivity for the single Fe sites inside the microporous environment.
A Grid environment can be viewed as a virtual computing architecture that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many computers geographically dispersed and connected by a network.
An important part of current research on appearance based mapping works towards semantic representations of the environment, which may allow autonomous systems to perform higher level tasks and provide better human robot interaction.
As an application we show how the technique can be used to perform higher-order greedy optimizations and simulated annealing searches with improved performance.
But they weren't necessarily using the newfound mental space to perform higher-order computations.
Students perform high-precision measurements and participate in data analysis.
And yes, as the coverage of Ted Kennedy's death reminds us, anchors perform high-wire feats.
Every day, offenders are sent out to perform high-risk police operations with few legal protections.
