Amdahl's Law
<parallel> (Named after Gene Amdahl) If F is the fraction of a
calculation that is sequential, and (1-F) is the fraction that can be
parallelised, then the maximum speedup that can be achieved by using P
processors is 1/(F+(1-F)/P).
[Gene Amdahl, "Validity of the Single Processor Approach to Achieving
Large-Scale Computing Capabilities", AFIPS Conference Proceedings, (30), pp.
483-485, 1967].
(2002-10-16)
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