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Amdahl's law

Known as: Amdahl, Amdahl law, Amdahl s Law 
In computer architecture, Amdahl's law (or Amdahl's argument) gives the theoretical speedup in latency of the execution of a task at fixed workload… 
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Analysis of parallel algorithms

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
A Step towards Energy Efficient Computing: Redesigning a Hydrodynamic Application on CPU-GPU
Power and energy consumption are becoming an increasing concern in high performance computing. Compared to multi-core CPUs, GPUs… 
2010
2010
Extending Amdahl's law for energy-efficiency
This paper presents a study about the potential dynamic energy improvement that can be achieved when hardware parallelization is… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Computer Architecture and Amdahl's Law
An autobiographical overview of Gene Amdah's professional career reviews his early achievements and describes for the first time… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Petascale computational systems
A balanced cyberinfrastructure is necessary to meet growing data-intensitive scientific needs. We believe that available… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Design methodology for a tightly coupled VLIW/reconfigurable matrix architecture: a case study
Coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures have seen growing importance recently. Design tools and methodology are essential to… 
2003
2003
The effect of selected parameters on ship collision results by dynamic FE simulations
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Dynamically allocating processor resources between nearby and distant ILP
Modern superscalar processors use wide instruction issue widths and out-of-order execution in order to increase instruction-level… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Architectural support for fast symmetric-key cryptography
The emergence of the Internet as a trusted medium for commerce and communication has made cryptography an essential component of… 
1996
1996
Column generation approaches to bus driver scheduling
Mathematical programming approaches to solving the driver scheduling problem have become successful with improvements in computer… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Communication of behavorial state in multi-agent retrieval tasks
The impact on performance of a society of robots in a foraging task when simple communication is introduced is assessed. Results… 
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