Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Gene Amdahl was chief architect of the IBM System/360, the unified mainframe family launched in 1964.
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Gene Amdahl formulated Amdahl's Law in his 1967 paper on the limits of speedup from parallelizing a computation.
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Gene Myron Amdahl (November 16, 1922, November 10, 2015) was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing.
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November 16, 1922
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November 10, 2015
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