Amdahl's Law
formula in computer architecture
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Videos Mentioning Amdahl's Law
Chad Rigetti at Startup School SV 2016
Y Combinator
A law discussing the limiting benefits or diminishing returns of parallelization in computing. Mentioned in the context of current supercomputers' limitations.
Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494
Lex Fridman
A principle in computer architecture that describes the maximum possible improvement in the speed of a system when only a part of the system is improved; mentioned in the context of distributed computing challenges.
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | The Discipline of Delivering Value per Gigawatt
Stanford Online
A principle that states the performance gain from parallelizing a task is limited by the sequential portion of the task. Applied to infrastructure, highlighting the need for balanced IO, memory, and network bandwidth relative to compute.