Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities
GM Amdahl - Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint …, 1967 - dl.acm.org
GM Amdahl
Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference, 1967•dl.acm.orgFor 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 …
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 …
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.