Subject

    Computer Science

    Topic

    Computer Hardware

    Amdahl’s Law best explains which performance reality when parallelizing workloads?

    ক)
    Linear speedup with more cores
    খ)
    Diminishing returns due to the serial fraction
    গ)
    GPU always outperforms CPU
    ঘ)
    Clock speed is irrelevant

    Explanation

    Amdahl’s Law says speedup ≤ 1 /((1−P)+P/S), where P is parallel portion and S is speedup on that part. Even tiny serial parts cap total speedup as cores increase. It guides investment between parallelization and reducing serial bottlenecks. Always measure the true serial fraction.

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