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From: art%maui.berkeley.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Arthur Goldberg)
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Subject: Re: Amdahls Law(s)
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Date: 2 May 88 17:49:46 GMT
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%A G. M. Amdahl
%T The Validity of the Single Processor Approach to Achieving Large
Scale Computing Capabilities
%I AFIPS Conference Proceedings
%V 30 
%D 1967
%X Well known (infamous ?) Amdahl's law that suggests that if x %
of an algorithm is not parallelizable then the maximum speedup is 1/x. 
Limits of vectorization. 

Arthur Goldberg
cs.ucla.edu