Category
page 1Analysis of parallel algorithms
Amdahl's law
formula in computer architecture
Gustafson's law
law
data dependency
parallel random-access machine
abstract computer for designing parallel algorithms
speedup
In computer architecture, speedup is a number that measures the relative performance of two systems processing the same problem. More technically, it is the improvement in speed of execution of a task executed on two similar architectures with different resources. The notion of speedup was established by Amdahl's law, which was particularly focused on parallel processing. However, speedup can be used more generally to show the effect on performance after any resource enhancement.