Moncrieff, D.; Overill, R. E.; Wilson, S. Heterogeneous computing machines and Amdahl’s law. (English) Zbl 0875.68412 Parallel Comput. 22, No. 3, 407-413 (1996). Summary: We consider the implications of Amdahl’s Law for a heterogeneous system of computers each of which is a homogeneous parallel processor. We introduce a parallelism profile function to describe the level of parallelism achieved in different fragments of the computation and demonstrate that, for some choices of this function, the performance of a heterogeneous system significantly exceeds that of each of the component homogeneous systems. MSC: 68Q10 Modes of computation (nondeterministic, parallel, interactive, probabilistic, etc.) Keywords:Parallel processing; Amdahl’s Law; Heterogeneous computing; Parallel vector processors; Massively parallel processors PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{D. Moncrieff} et al., Parallel Comput. 22, No. 3, 407--413 (1996; Zbl 0875.68412) Full Text: DOI