http://insidehpc.com/2011/06/28/21047/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://insidehpc.com/2011/06/28/21047/#comment-353739 Mark Hahn Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:52:45 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=21047#comment-353739 I hope people don't read the article and think that it's a real criticism of Amdahl. the example it gives (with multiple phases and varying levels of parallelism) is really a reiteration of Amdahl's asymptotic analysis. it really is all about the serial fraction, since you can only reduce the parallel sections to zero cost... I hope people don’t read the article and think that it’s a real criticism of Amdahl. the example it gives (with multiple phases and varying levels of parallelism) is really a reiteration of Amdahl’s asymptotic analysis. it really is all about the serial fraction, since you can only reduce the parallel sections to zero cost…

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