Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era
Mark D. Hill, Michael R. Marty
Abstract
Mark D. Hill, Michael R. Marty
Abstract
Augmenting Amdahl's law with a corollary for multicore hardware makes it relevant to future generations of chips with multiple processor cores. Obtaining optimal multicore performance will require further research in both extracting more parallelism and making sequential cores faster.
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Augmenting Amdahl's law with a corollary for multicore hardware makes it relevant to future generations of chips with multiple processor cores. Obtaining optimal multicore performance will require further research in both extracting more parallelism and making sequential cores faster.
Key concepts: Multi-core processor, Computer science, Corollary, Parallelism (grammar), Parallel computing, Moore's law, Operating system, Pure mathematics