Re: maximum speedup bound on multi-core processors

2009-01-31 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Jan 31, 2009, at 2:48 PM, jurin...@eecs.utk.edu wrote: Can anyone tell me if the maximum speedup using parallel programming on multicore processors is BOUNDED by: (A) number of processers (as on a single core processor). (B) number of processors X number cores / processor. If each process

maximum speedup bound on multi-core processors

2009-01-31 Thread jurincie
Can anyone tell me if the maximum speedup using parallel programming on multicore processors is BOUNDED by: (A) number of processers (as on a single core processor). (B) number of processors X number cores / processor. If each processor runs numCore threads SIMULTANEOUSLY the answer would be (B)