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Gene Amdahl and the Serial Fraction: Why Parallel Speedup Has a Ceiling

Gene Amdahl's 1967 argument showed that speeding up only the parallel part of a workload leaves a stubborn serial remainder, creating a mathematical ceiling on strong-scaling speedup.

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