Reevaluating Amdahl's law

The work

AuthorsJohn L. Gustafson
Editors
Typearticle
Year1988
Citekeygustafson1988reevaluating

Where it appeared

Published inCommunications of the ACM
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Volume31
Issue5
Pages532--533

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/42411.42415
OpenAlexW1979566015

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@article{gustafson1988reevaluating,
  title        = {Reevaluating Amdahl's law},
  author       = {John L. Gustafson},
  year         = {1988},
  journal      = {Communications of the ACM},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)},
  volume       = {31},
  number       = {5},
  pages        = {532--533},
  doi          = {10.1145/42411.42415},
}

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