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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
2015
Highly Cited
2015
SHIELD: Scalable Homomorphic Implementation of Encrypted Data-Classifiers
Homomorphic encryption (HE) systems enable computations on encrypted data, without decrypting and without knowledge of the secret… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Towards high-capacity fibre-optic communications at the speed of light in vacuum
Wide-bandwidth signal transmission with low latency is emerging as a key requirement in a number of applications, including the… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Modeling critical sections in Amdahl's law and its implications for multicore design
This paper presents a fundamental law for parallel performance: it shows that parallel performance is not only limited by… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
GPU acceleration of an unmodified parallel finite element Navier-Stokes solver
We have previously suggested a minimally invasive approach to include hardware accelerators into an existing large-scale parallel… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Corollaries to Amdahl's Law for Energy
This paper studies the important interaction between parallelization and energy consumption in a parallelizable application… 
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
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… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Mapping of H.264 decoding on a multiprocessor architecture
Due to the increasing significance of development costs in the competitive domain of high-volume consumer electronics, generic… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Reevaluating Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law
ABSTRACT Researchers in the parallel processing community have been using Amdahl’s Law and Gustafson’s Law to obtainestimated… 
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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