The prescient Amdahl · Jan 9, 04:43 PM

This week GCN has a feature story on how programmers can write their programs to get the most out of multicore processors.

The problem is only partially about how to break up the problem in such a way that it uses all the processor cores you have available. That’s complicated enough, but there is an additional trick—you must break up the problem in such a way that any gains in efficiency aren’t eaten up by the overhead it takes to manage the execution across numerous cores.

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