Title
Extending Amdahl's law and Gustafson's law by evaluating interconnections on multi-core processors
Abstract
Multicore chips are emerging as the mainstream solution for high performance computing. Generally, communication overheads cause large performance degradation in multi-core collaboration. Interconnects in large scale are needed to deal with these overheads. Amdahl's and Gustafson's law have been applied to multi-core chips but inter-core communication has not been taken into account. In this paper, we introduce interconnection into Amdahl's and Gustafson's law so that these laws work more precisely in the multi-core era. We further propose an area cost model and analyse our speedup models under area constraints. We find optimized parameters according to our speedup model. These parameters provide useful feedbacks to architects at an initial phase of their designs. We also present a case study to show the necessity of incorporating interconnection into Amdahl's and Gustafson's law.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s11227-013-0908-9
The Journal of Supercomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Amdahl’s law,Gustafson’s law,Interconnection,Multi-core processor,Chip area,Model
Supercomputer,Computer science,Amdahl's law,Parallel computing,Gustafson's law,Interconnection,Karp–Flatt metric,Multi-core processor,Speedup,Distributed computing,Overhead (business)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
66
1
0920-8542
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
23
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tian Huang1537.40
Yongxin Zhu246658.07
Meikang Qiu33722246.98
Xiao-Jing Yin4174.40
Xu Wang5134.67