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1 total messages Started by Eugene Miya N. Mon, 14 Sep 1987 20:43
Re: Amdahl's Law (reference)
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Author: Eugene Miya N.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1987 20:43
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%A Gene M. Amdahl
%T Validity of the Single Processor Approach to Achieving 
Large Scale Computing Capabilities
%J AFIPS Conference Proceedings (SJCC)
%V 30
%D 1967
%P 483-485

If you get a chance to here him speak, I highly recommend it.
John Backus is another IBMer (developed FORTRAN) who gives good
lectures.  This paper is not great, it's a top of the head paper rather
than an academic paper.  Required reading (my opinion) for any person
thinking about parallel processing (but I'll mention that Wednesday).

--eugene
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