Amdahl's law in the multicore era

Computer

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 33-38

  Hill, Mark D ^a   Marty, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Amdahl's law; Chip multiprocessors (CMPs); Multicore chips

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249118853     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2008.209     Document Type: Article

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