A generalization of Amdahl's law and relative conditions of parallelism
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
2007-05-23 v1 Performance
Abstract
In this work I present a generalization of Amdahl's law on the limits of a parallel implementation with many processors. In particular I establish some mathematical relations involving the number of processors and the dimension of the treated problem, and with these conditions I define, on the ground of the reachable speedup, some classes of parallelism for the implementations. I also derive a condition for obtaining superlinear speedup. The used mathematical technics are those of differential calculus. I describe some examples from classical problems offered by the specialized literature on the subject.
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@article{arxiv.cs/0209029,
title = {A generalization of Amdahl's law and relative conditions of parallelism},
author = {Gianluca Argentini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0209029},
year = {2007}
}
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11 pages, 4 figures