Gene Amdahl
Computer architect known for formulating Amdahl's Law, which describes the theoretical upper bound on the speedup achievable through parallel computing. The law states that the speedup of a program is limited by the fraction of its execution that remains serial, so that adding processors yields diminishing returns as the serial portion grows in relative significance. Amdahl's work also includes contributions to mainframe computer design, most notably as chief architect of the IBM System/360, and he later founded companies developing large-scale computers.
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Amdahl's law was proposed by Gene Amdahl in 1967 to describe the theoretical upper limit of speedup in parallel computing: if a portion of a program has proportion p and cannot be accelerated, the overall speedup is at most 1/(p+(1-p)/s), where s is the speedup factor achievable for that portion.
Amdahl's Law was proposed by computer scientist Gene Amdahl in 1967, stating that the speedup gained from parallelization is limited by the proportion of the task that cannot be parallelized.
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Amdahl's law was proposed by Gene Amdahl in 1967 to describe the theoretical upper limit of speedup in parallel computing: if a portion of a program has proportion p and cannot be accelerated, the overall speedup is at most 1/(p+(1-p)/s), where s is the speedup factor achievable for that portion.
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