DocumentCode
3296791
Title
MPPs, Amdahl´s law, and comparing computers
Author
Annaratone, Marco
Author_Institution
Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, MA, USA
fYear
1992
fDate
19-21 Oct 1992
Firstpage
465
Lastpage
470
Abstract
The author examines Amdahl´s law in the context of parallel processing and provides some arguments as to what the applicability of this law really is. Amdahl´s law establishes an upper bound on the available parallelism given the fraction of sequential code present in an application. In this paper, Amdahl´s law is revisited to derive a formulation which allows one to carry out some quantitative analysis. The claim that MPPs (massively parallel processors) are special-purpose systems is also addressed
Keywords
parallel processing; Amdahl´s law; MPPs; massively parallel processors; parallelism; quantitative analysis; sequential code; special-purpose systems; upper bound; Application software; Costs; Manufacturing; Parallel processing; Upper bound;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1992., Fourth Symposium on the
Conference_Location
McLean, VA
Print_ISBN
0-8186-2772-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FMPC.1992.234879
Filename
234879
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