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Article: Massively Parallel Technologies Hosts Discussion With Newly Appointed Advisory Board Members Dr. Gene Amdahl and Dr. Robert Duncan; Dr. Amdahl Presented With First Mathematical Derivation of Seminal 'Amdahl's Law'.
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- January 6, 2005
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LOUISVILLE, Colo., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Massively Parallel Technologies (MPT), a provider of on-demand high-performance computing, recently hosted an event at MPT headquarters featuring recognized authorities on parallel processing Dr. Gene Amdahl and Dr. Robert Duncan. Both Dr. Amdahl and Dr. Duncan recently joined the MPT's Board of Advisors and were present to speak about issues surrounding parallel processing.
Gene Amdahl crafted "Amdahl's Law" in 1967, which states that in parallelization there are issues that will eventually place an upper limit on the maximal speed of the system, therefore mitigating much of the benefit of parallelization. MPT's ...