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Computer engineering

the observation that parallel speedup can grow nearly linearly when problem size scales with the number of processors.

In computer engineering, Gustafson's law refers to the observation that parallel speedup can grow nearly linearly when problem size scales with the number of processors. This meaning comes from Gustafson (1988) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

Gustafson, J. L. (1988). Reevaluating Amdahl's law. Communications of the ACM, 31(5), 532-533. https://doi.org/10.1145/42411.42415

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