Taken for Granted

First, for full disclosure, I would like to mention that I am on the board of Cadstone, a commercial company founded by Perry Alexander to develop Rosetta-based tools and models and offer services. I have also been involved with Rosetta on and off for over a decade, and wrote the foreword for Perry’s [...]

My colleague Patrick Madden, a professor of computer science at Binghamton University in New York, is a great fan of Amdahl’s Law, and in fact writes a blog of that name. His main argument is that Amdahl’s Law, which limits the speedup possible on an application ported or written for a multicore [...]