Title :
Amdahl´s Law in the Multicore Era
Author :
Hill, Mark D. ; Marty, Michael R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
fDate :
7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
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.
Keywords :
Computer architecture; Costs; Energy management; Equations; Hardware; Multicore processing; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Parallel processing; Pipelines; Roads; Amdahl´s law; chip multiprocessors (CMPs); multicore chips;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2008.209
