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 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
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
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
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
Neil J. Gunther — Neil James Gunther Neil Gunther at Bletchley Park 2002 A quantum leap is neither Born … Wikipedia
Karp-Flatt metric — The Karp Flatt Metric is a measure of parallelization of code in parallel processor systems. This metric exists in addition to Amdahl s Law and the Gustafson s Law as an indication of the extent to which a particular computer code is parallelized … Wikipedia
Computer cluster — Not to be confused with data cluster. A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely thus in many respects forming a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other… … Wikipedia
Distributed GIS — concerns itself with GI Systems that do not have all of the system components in the same physical location. This could be the processing, the database, the rendering or the user interface. Examples of distributed systems are web based GIS,… … Wikipedia
List of eponymous laws — This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person. In some cases the person named has coined the law – such as Parkinson s law. In others, the work or… … Wikipedia