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Entering a Parallel Universe.

The article discusses the multicore processors that help extend Moore's Law, which states that chip transistor density will double every two years, but may conflict with Amdahl's law, which puts a limit on the benefit of converting code from sequential to parallel. Numerous calculations are performe...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 9; pp. 15 - 18
Autores principales: Goth, Gregory, Patterson,, David A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2009
Materias:
Parallel programming
Microprocessors
Computer programming
Sequential processing (Computer science)
Moore's law
Forecasting technological innovation
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