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Amdahl's Law for Tail Latency.

The article discusses the implications of Amdahl's law for tail latency and its consequences for parallel processing and single-thread performance optimization for data-center hardware development and software architecture design. The alleged importance of balancing memory resource usage and computa...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 8; pp. 65 - 73
Main Authors: DELIMITROU, CHRISTINA, KOZYRAKIS, CHRISTOS
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2018
Subjects:
Amdahl's law
Parallel processing
Software architecture
Parallel programming
Program transformation
Computer input-output equipment design & construction
Queuing theory
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the implications of Amdahl's law for tail latency and its consequences for parallel processing and single-thread performance optimization for data-center hardware development and software architecture design. The alleged importance of balancing memory resource usage and computational resources is described along with the implications of queuing theory for hardware design.