What Does Amdahl’s Law Mean?
Amdahl’s law, named after a computer architect named Gene Amdahl and his work in the 1960s, is a law showing how much latency can be taken out of a performance task by introducing parallel computing.
Techopedia Explains Amdahl’s Law
Parallel Computing and Multicore Systems
The concept of parallel computing is that more than one processor can work on a given task simultaneously, which will speed up a task by a certain factor. That’s where Amdahl’s law applies, in finding that factor’s benchmark.
