Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities

1967/01/01 by Gene M. Amdahl · 9 citations
Computer Science · #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Interconnection Networks and Systems

paper · doi:10.1145/1465482.1465560

openalex publication_date 1967/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03

Abstract

For over a decade prophets have voiced the contention that the organization of a single computer has reached its limits and that truly significant advances can be made only by interconnection of a multiplicity of computers in such a manner as to permit cooperative solution. Variously the proper direction has been pointed out as general purpose computers with a generalized interconnection of memories, or as specialized computers with geometrically related memory interconnections and controlled by one or more instruction streams.

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