Tag
amdahl
- Apr 2, 2026 Amdahl and Gustafson Bounds in Capacity Models Why a serial fraction caps the throughput a fixed workload can reach, how scaled workload changes the bound, and what the usable-scalability limit means for sizing a fleet. performance engineering
- Feb 20, 2026 Amdahl's Law and the Serial Fraction That Caps Speedup Why a fixed serial portion of a workload bounds speedup no matter how many processors are added, how to estimate that fraction, and where the law stops describing real scaling. performance engineering
- Feb 5, 2024 Strong and Weak Scaling: What Amdahl and Gustafson Actually Bound The two scaling questions, the arithmetic behind their ceilings, and how to read a measured curve without attributing every bend to the algorithm. scientific computing
- Nov 11, 2022 The Cost of Generality: Why Fixed-Function Logic Wins What a programmable core spends on instruction issue and operand fetch, how Amdahl bounds the payoff of offloading work, and where a fixed-function unit actually beats a CPU. computer architecture