articleComputerJul 1, 2008Closed access

Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era

MDMark D. HillMRMichael R. Marty

University of Wisconsin–Madison · Google (United States)

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Abstract

Augmenting Amdahl's law with a corollary for multicore hardware makes it relevant to future generations of chips with multiple processor cores. Obtaining optimal multicore performance will require further research in both extracting more parallelism and making sequential cores faster.

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Keywords
  • Multi-core processor
  • Computer science
  • Corollary
  • Parallelism (grammar)
  • Parallel computing
  • Moore's law
  • Operating system
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