Fixed time, tiered memory, and superlinear speedup

Proceedings of the 5th Distributed Memory Computing Conference, DMCC 1990

Volumn 2, Issue , 1990, Pages 1255-1260

  Gustafson, John L ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

ENSEMBLE MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PHYSICAL MEMORY; SCALED MODELING; STORAGE COMPLEXITY; SUPERLINEAR SPEEDUPS; UNIPROCESSORS;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33747934288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DMCC.1990.556383     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. Faber, V., Lubeck, O. M., and White, A. B., "Superlinear Speedup of an Efficient Sequential Algorithm is Not Possible, " Parallel Computing, 3(1986), pp. 259-260.
2. Goral, G. M., Torrance, K. E., Greenberg, D. P., and Battaile, B., "Modeling the Interaction of Light Between Diffuse Surfaces, " ACM Computer Graphics, Volume 18, Number 3(1984), pp. 213-222.
3. Gustafson, J. L., "Reevaluating Amdahl's Law, " Communications of the ACM, Volume 31(1987), pp. 532-533.
4. Gustafson, J. L., Montry, G. R., and Benner, R. E., "Development of Parallel Methods for a 1024- Processor Hypercube, " SI AM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, Volume 9(1988), Number 4, pp. 609-638.
5. Helmbold, D. P. and McDowell, C. E., "Modeling Speedup (n) greater than n, " 1989 International Conference on Parallel Processing Proceedings, (1989), Volume III, pp. 219-225.
6. Parkinson, D., "Parallel Efficiency can be Greater than Unity, " Parallel Computing, 3(1986), pp. 261-262.
7. Seitz, C. L., "The Cosmic Cube, " Communications of the ACM, Volume 28(1985), pp. 22-33.
8. Worley, P. H., "The Effect of Time Constraints on Scaled Speedup, " Report ORNUTM-11031, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January, 1989.