1. Literature Review Dongdong Chen Peng Huang
Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities Gene M. Amdahl
Literature Review
Dongdong Chen
Peng Huang

2. Introduction Single VS Multiple Interconnection of computers
Validity of the single processor approach
Weakness of the multiple processor approach

3. Arguments Description
Statistical characteristics of computation
The fraction of the computational load is constant (~40%).
Sequential ( unlikely to be amenable to parallel processing technique)

4. Arguments Description
Physical Problems
Irregular boundaries
Inhomogeneous interior
Computation maybe dependent on the states of the variables at each point
Propagation rate may be quite different
The rate of convergence may be strongly dependent on sweeping through array.

5. Conclusion
(1) Amdahl’s Law

6. Amdahl’s Law (Con)