Affiliation:
1. Computer Sciences Department, 1210 West Dayton St., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Abstract
Scalability
is a frequently-claimed attribute of multiprocessor systems. While the basic notion is intuitive, scalability has no generally-accepted definition. For this reason, current use of the term adds more to marketing potential than technical insight.In this paper, I first examine formal definitions of scalability, but
I fail to lind a useful, rigorous definition of it
. I then question whether scalability is useful and conclude by challenging the technical community to either (1) rigorously define scalability or (2) stop using it to describe systems.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Cited by
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