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Karp-Flatt metric: a standalone construct

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the serial fraction of a parallel program estimated from its measured speedup, used to diagnose why efficiency drops as processors are added.

In distributed systems, Karp-Flatt metric refers to the serial fraction of a parallel program estimated from its measured speedup, used to diagnose why efficiency drops as processors are added. This meaning comes from Karp (1990) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

Karp, A. H., & Flatt, H. P. (1990). Measuring parallel processor performance. Communications of the ACM, 33(5), 539-543. https://doi.org/10.1145/78607.78614

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