The Universal Scalability Law: Why Some Systems Get Slower, Not Just Flatter
Amdahl's Law tells you that speedup plateaus once the serial fraction of a workload takes over.
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Amdahl's Law tells you that speedup plateaus once the serial fraction of a workload takes over.
Neil Gunther's Universal Scalability Law adds a second penalty term to Amdahl's Law, and that one term explains a failure mode Amdahl's original model cannot: throughput that goes down as you add more...
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Amdahl's Law tells you that speedup plateaus once the serial fraction of a workload takes over.
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