On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Francois Berenger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In the past I have been quite badly surprised by
> the no-acceleration I gained when using OpenMP
> with some of my programs... :(
Amdahl's law is cruel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
This is the same reason why GPU acceleration isn't very useful for
most crystallography software.
-Nat
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