DocumentCode
791976
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
Volume
41
Issue
7
fYear
2008
fDate
7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
33
Lastpage
38
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MC.2008.209
Filename
4563876
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