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02 May 2009
Are we taking advantage of Parallelism?

Recently, a colleague of mine, Mark Friedman, posted a blog titled “ Parallel Scalability Isn’t Child’s Play ” in which he reviewed the merits of Amdahl Law vs. Gunther’s Law for determining the practical limits to parallelization. I would not argue with Read More...

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16 March 2009
Parallel Scalability Isn’t Child’s Play

In a recent blog entry , Dr. Neil Gunther, a colleague from the Computer Measurement Group (CMG), warned about unrealistic expectations being raised with regard to the performance of parallel programs on current multi-core hardware. Neil’s blog entry Read More...

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Filed under: Scalability, Parallel programming, Hardware