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Foil 76 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 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, (Some Culler, Koelbel material)
1 AMDAHL"s LAW or
2 Too many cooks spoil the broth
3 Says that
4 Speedup S is small if efficiency e small
5 or for Hadrian's wall
6 equivalently S is small if length l small
7 But this is irrelevant as we do not need parallel processing unless problem big!
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