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A general look at Amdahl’s law, which expresses the parallel processing advantage of a job with serial and parallel components. Variants of Amdahl’s law such as Gustafson’s law are discussed. The design of different multicore architectures is examined. A CPU/GPU example is considered. Delay and energy objective functions are presented. Finally, the role of Amdahl’s law in the context of local versus cloud processing tradeoffs is studied.
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Robertazzi, T.G., Shi, L. (2020). Amdahl’s and Other Laws. In: Networking and Computation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36704-6_6
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