Slack: a New Performance Metric for Parallel Programs
Auteur : University of Wisconsin--Madison. Computer Sciences Department, Barton Paul Miller
Date de publication : 1994
Éditeur : University of Wisconsin-Madison, Computer Sciences Department
Nombre de pages : 7
Résumé du livre
Abstract: "Critical Path Profiling is a technique that provides guidance to help programmers try to improve the running time of their program. However, Critical Path Profiling provides only an upper bound estimate of the improvement possible in a parallel program execution. In this paper, we present a new metric, called Slack, to complement Critical Path and provide additional information to parallel programmers about the potential impact of making improvements along the critical path."