On Tuesday 13 May 2008 03:03:10 Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 13.05.2008, 02:19 +0100 schrieb Jon Harrop:
> > On Tuesday 13 May 2008 01:42:42 Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> > > In this (very unoptimized) multiplier message passing accounts for ~25%
> > > of the runtime. Even for 2 cores there is already a speedup. 10 cores
> > > (over a network) are about 4 times faster than a single core without
> > > message passing.
> >
> > For what values of "n"?
>
> It's in the article. n=1000, 2000, 3000. The "4 times faster" statement
> is for n=3000.

Can you find a more accurate estimate of the threshold value of "n" above 
which there is a speedup on 2 cores?

I think that would be very useful.

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