Amdahl's law

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Amdahl's law - Not everything can be paralleled and optimized

Amdahl’s law is a formula used in parallel computing to find the maximum improvement improvement possible by improving a particular part of a system. In parallel computing, Amdahl's law is mainly used to predict the theoretical maximum speedup for program processing using multiple processors. It is named after Gene Amdahl, a computer architect from IBM and the Amdahl Corporation.

To understand the law lets consider a single processor system which completes a job in 10 Hours. To improve the...

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