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by frostirosti 3392 days ago
Reevaluating Amdahl's Law.

http://www.johngustafson.net/pubs/pub13/amdahl.pdf

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wow even this is a bit hard to parse (and I work with John!)

Basically, Gustafson's law says, "yeah but really what you're going to do with massively parallel computing is you're going to run more copies of the same program, which has a linear scaling factor".