Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era

2008/07/01 by Mark D. Hill, Michael R. Marty · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Interconnection Networks and Systems #Advanced Data Storage Technologies

paper · doi:10.1109/mc.2008.209

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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.

Citations

• Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities

Cited by

• Amdahl's law in the context of heterogeneous many‐core systems – a survey
• Amdahl's law [wikipedia]