Weak Versus Strong Scaling
In the context of high performance computing there are two common notions of scalability.
- The first is strong scaling, which is defined as how the solution time varies with the number of processors for a fixed total problem size.
- The second is weak scaling, which is defined as how the solution time varies with the number of processors for a fixed problem size per processor.
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