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Concurrent Systems II - Bad Request - Trinity College Dublin

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Amdahl’s Law<br />

• If a portion P of a job can be speeded up by a factor of S,<br />

then the speedup is given as:<br />

Speedup =<br />

• From this, you can calculate the efficiency of the parallelisation.<br />

1<br />

(1 − P )+ P S<br />

E = Speedup<br />

N<br />

74<br />

<strong>Trinity</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Dublin</strong><br />

© Mike Brady 2007–2009

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