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Foil 56 Amdahl's law for Real World Parallel Processing

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
AMDAHL"s LAW or
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Says that
Speedup S is small if efficiency e small
or for Hadrian's wall
equivalently S is small if length l small
But this is irrelevant as we do not need parallel processing unless problem big!

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