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Computer engineering

the limit on speedup from parallel processing set by the fraction of a task that must run sequentially.

In computer engineering, Amdahl's law refers to the limit on speedup from parallel processing set by the fraction of a task that must run sequentially. This meaning comes from Amdahl (1967) in Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '67 (Spring).[1]

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Amdahl, G. M. (1967). Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities. Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '67 (Spring). https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465560

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