Computer Science · Computer Architecture
A topic within Computer Architecture, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
2 works
Mark D. Hill & Michael R. Marty
Extends Amdahl's Law to chips built from many identical or specialised cores, showing that a small number of powerful cores can beat many weak ones on partly-serial workloads.
Samuel Williams, Andrew Waterman & David Patterson
Plots achievable performance against a kernel's arithmetic intensity, showing from a single chart whether a program is limited by compute throughput or memory bandwidth.
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