Scaling Theory and Machine Abstractions

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  • Martha A. Kim
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Parallelization is no different than any other program optimization. Thus, when evaluating the quality of a particular parallelization, we will use many of the same metrics that we use in the serial domain, namely: execution time and speedup. Execution time is simply a measure of the time required to complete a particular task. Speedup compares the execution time of a program before and after optimization. An optimization’s speedup is simply the ratio of the runtime before optimization to the runtime afterwards:

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تاریخ انتشار 2012