Amdahl’s Law

symbols, variables and units

f: parallelizable time ratio; p: number of processors; S: speedup ratio.

applicable conditions and boundaries

fixes the task size, ignores communication and scheduling costs, and is ideally evenly distributed. The

formula source code

The following is a copyable LaTeX expression.

S(p)=\frac1{(1-f)+f/p}

Reference and Extended Learning

is organized according to model definition and assumptions. Please check actual conditions and original literature before engineering, research and clinical use.