Deneidez on 19 November 2008
| NJ5 said: Not all kinds of programs can take advantage of this. And, of course, Amdahl's law still applies. |
And some algorithms can't even be parallized, but anyway ppl usually misuse Amdahl's law and make others believe that you can get only 20x speed up max with any amount of cores. Actually with massive amount of cores/processors you can get insane speed ups.
http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Publications/Gus/AmdahlsLaw/Amdahls.html
