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Parallel Architectures

A topic within Computer Architecture, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.

Reading on Parallel Architectures

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Paper1967

Validity of the Single Processor Approach to Achieving Large Scale Computing Capabilities

Gene M. Amdahl

Shows that the serial fraction of a program bounds the speed-up available from parallel hardware, no matter how many processors are added.

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Paper1988

Reevaluating Amdahl's Law

John L. Gustafson

Argues Amdahl's Law wrongly assumes problem size is fixed, and that programmers instead scale the problem to fill available processors, so speed-up grows with machine size rather than saturating.

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Reading on Parallel Architectures

Validity of the Single Processor Approach to Achieving Large Scale Computing Capabilities

Reevaluating Amdahl's Law

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