Amdahl's law — Amdahl s law, also known as Amdahl s argument, [Rodgers 85, p.226] is named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved. It is often used … Wikipedia
Amdahl’s Law — a computer system’s speed is determined by its slowest components (for Gene Amdahl) … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
Amdahl's law — (Computers) law which states that there is a limit to additional speed gained by using multiple parallel processors because some portions of programs must be executed serially … English contemporary dictionary
Amdahl Corporation — was founded by Dr. Gene Amdahl, a former IBM employee, in 1970, and specializes in IBM mainframe compatible computer products. It has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu since 1997. The company is located in Sunnyvale, California.Amdahl was … Wikipedia
Gustafson's law — (also known as Gustafson Barsis law) is a law in computer engineering which states that any sufficiently large problem can be efficiently parallelized. Gustafson s Law is closely related to Amdahl s law, which gives a limit to the degree to which … Wikipedia
Gene Amdahl — Gene Myron Amdahl (born November 16, 1922) is a Norwegian American computer architect and hi tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at International Business Machines (IBM) and later his own companies, especially… … Wikipedia
Ley de Amdahl — La Ley de Amdahl, llamada así por el arquitecto de ordenadores Gene Amdahl, se usa para averiguar la mejora máxima de un sistema cuando solo una parte de éste es mejorado. El incremento de velocidad de un programa utilizando múltiples… … Wikipedia Español
Moore's law — Plot of CPU transistor counts against dates of introduction. Note the logarithmic vertical scale; the line corresponds to exponential growth with transistor count doubling every two years … Wikipedia
Douglas K. Amdahl — Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court In office 1981–1989 Nominated by Al Quie Preceded by Robert Sheran Succeeded by Peter S. P … Wikipedia
William Mitchell College of Law — Motto Practical Wisdom Established 1900 School type Private Endowment $16.5 million[1] Dean Eric J … Wikipedia
Parallel computing — Programming paradigms Agent oriented Automata based Component based Flow based Pipelined Concatenative Concurrent computing … Wikipedia
