Amdahl’s Law in the 3-D Era
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This work studies the effect of 3-D Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) integration on Amdahl’s law. The influence of vertical communication and thermal gradients on CMP performance and scalability is studied from Amdahl’s law perspective. We find that a fast vertical connectivity enabled by 3-D implementation shifts the optimum CMP configuration towards the larger number of lighter cores, thus improving CMP scalability relative to 2-D implementation. However, we also show that a high level of parallelism may lead to high peak temperatures, even in smaller scale 3-D CMPs, thus limiting 3-D CMP scalability and calling for different, non-CMP architectures.
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