Homework Assignment #10 [50 points + 6 points extra credit]

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Overview

This is an assignment in which you reason about parallel performance.

How/What to turn in

You should turn in a PDF or plain text README file with your answers in Laulima.

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Exercise #1 [50 pts]: Data Parallelism and Amdahl’s Law

Answer the following five questions, showing your work, at the end of The Data Parallism tab on this page:

• [A.2.q5.1] [10 pts]
• [A.2.q5.2] [10 pts]
• [A.2.q5.3] [10 pts]
• [A.2.q5.4] [10 pts]
• [A.2.q5.5] [10 pts]

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Exercise #2 [6 pts - EXTRA CREDIT]: Performance of a Multicore App

Answer the two questions, showing your work, on the Capstone tab on this page:

• [A.2.q6.1] [2 pts]
• [A.2.q6.2] [4 pts]

Hint: To answer these questions, you may need to go through the content in previous tabs on that Web page in case you don’t have the right prerequisites.

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