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EECS 4340 Final Review

Work and critical path

Tag: work-critical-path

Aliases: T1 and T-infinity, average parallelism

Work T1 is the time to run a computation on one processor; critical path T_inf is its dependence-graph depth (time on infinitely many processors). Average parallelism is T1/T_inf, and a p-wide machine takes at least max(T1/p, T_inf) time.

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