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Foil 21 General Speed Up and Efficiency Analysis I

From Master Set for Parallel Programming for Laplace's Equation CPS615 Spring Semester 00 -- February 00. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Efficiency ? = Speed Up S / P (Number of Processors)
Overhead fcomm = (P TP - T1) / T1 = 1/ ? - 1
As fcomm linear in TP, overhead effects tend to be additive
In 2D Jacobi example fcomm = tcomm/(?n tfloat)
While efficiency takes approximate form ? ? 1 - tcomm/(?n tfloat) valid when overhead is small
As expected efficiency is < 1 corresponding to speedup being < P

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