DocumentCode
1168554
Title
Corrections
Author
Getov, Vladimir
Author_Institution
Visiting Scientist, Performance and Architecture Lab, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, Research Director, Harrow School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK
Volume
12
Issue
4
fYear
2007
Firstpage
2
Lastpage
2
Abstract
Summary form only given, as follows. In Vol. 12, no. 3 (Summer 2007), page 9, bottom of the left column, in \´Computer Architecture and Amdahl??s Law\´ by Gene Amdahl, the claim about invalidating Amdahl??s Law in 1988 came from a team at Sandia National Laboratories, and not Los Alamos. The correct text should read: "Several years later I was informed of a proof that Amdahl\´s Law was invalidated by someone at Sandia National Laboratories, where a number of computers interconnected as an Ncube by communication lines, but with each computer also connected to I/O devices for loading the operating system, initial data, and results." On page 20 of the same issue, in the second sentence of the diagram explanation note by Justin Rattner, the percentage figures for the sequential and the system coordination parts of the workload were interchanged. The correct version of this sentence should read: "assuming a fixed sized problem, Amdahl speculated that most programs would require at least 10% of the computation to be sequential (only one instruction executing at a time), with overhead due to interprocessor coordination averaging 25%."
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1098-4232
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/N-SSC.2007.4785648
Filename
4785648
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