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Foil 36 What Affects Speed Up ?

From New CPS615 Foils-- D 23 September 95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 The speed up S is reduced from P for two reasons
  • Load Imbalance
  • Communication Overhead
2 In some cases, one also has effects from parallel method being different from sequential method but that is not relevant here
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