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* [http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dburger/teaching/cs395t-s08/papers/5_hill.pdf Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era] by MD Hill | * [http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dburger/teaching/cs395t-s08/papers/5_hill.pdf Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era] by MD Hill | ||
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Revision as of 11:46, 29 January 2010
CSE 6230 -- High Performance Parallel Computing
- weak scaling - maximizing work performed per unit time
- strong scaling - minimizing time-to-solution
- lock-free - guaranteed system-wide progress
- wait-free - guaranteed per-thread progress
Measures of parallel algorithms
- Cost: proccount * exectime
- Overhead: Cost(P) - Cost(1)
- Speedup: exectime(1) / exectime(p)
- Efficiency: Speedup / p
- Scalable if
- Efficiency is O(1) as p approaches infinity (*not* 0)
- Work(p) is linear in p
- Fixed work per processor is O(1) as p approaches infinity (*not* 0)
- Isoefficiency: How fast must our working set grow to maintain constant efficiency as processors are added?
Papers
- Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era by MD Hill
- Lock-free Algorithms page
