Do Multicore processors cause us to re-evaluate Amdahl’s law ?
Jan 25th, 2009 by admin
The Illinois Institute of technology recently published a paper (nov 2008) that looks at how Amdahl’s law applies to multicore processors.It is essentially a rebuffal of the pessimistic view that Hill and Marty presented in their paper on multicore scalability using Amdahl’s law. Their models show that “there is no inherent, immovable upper bound on the scalability of multicore architectures.”
