Using Amdahl's law as a metric to drive code parallelization: two case studies

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 75-80

  Horoi, Mihai ^a   Enbody, Richard J ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AMDAHL LAW; CODE PARALLELIZATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035280799     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109434200101500107     Document Type: Article

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