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Archive for August 4th, 2008

(Inspired by Amdahl)’s competition

Posted: Monday, August 4th, 2008 @ 1:28 pm in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

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 [...]