Your company has just bought a new dual Pentium processor, and you have been tasked with optimizing

Question:

Your company has just bought a new dual Pentium processor, and you have been tasked with optimizing your software for this processor. You will run two applications on this dual Pentium, but the resource requirements are not equal. The first application needs 80% of the resources, and the other only 20% of the resources.
a. Given that 40% of the first application is parallelizable, how much speedup would you achieve with that application if run in isolation?
b. Given that 99% of the second application is parallelizable, how much speedup would this application observe if run in isolation?
c. Given that 40% of the first application is parallelizable, how much overall system speedup would you observe if you parallelized it?
d. Given that 99% of the second application is parallelizable, how much overall system speedup would you get?
Fantastic news! We've Found the answer you've been seeking!

Step by Step Answer:

Related Book For  book-img-for-question

Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach

ISBN: 978-0123704900

4th edition

Authors: John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

Question Posted: