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Conclusions
f small, parallel processors has little effect
N ->, speedup bound by 1/(1 f)
Diminishing returns for using more processors
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References
AMDA67 Amdahl, G. Validity of the
Single-Processor Approach to Achieving
Large-Scale Computing Capability,
Proceedings of the AFIPS Conference,
1967.