Brief Transcript of a Conversation About Amdahl’s Law (With a Baby)

Adult: So if Ts is the serial processing time and Tp is the parallel processing time …

Baby: Mmmmmgrrrreeeeeemrrrrph ….

Adult: … then the speedup factor is given by Ts/Tp.

Baby: *urp* ….

Adult: If F denotes the part of the problem that’s indivisible into concurrent units of work …

Baby: *yaaaawwwn* ….

Adult: … then the parallel processing time can be expressed as FTs + [(1-F)Ts]/P …

Baby: Nnnnnrrrrrghhhghh ….

Adult: … where P is the number of processors, and the speedup factor can be ….

Baby: *SQUOOOOOSH*

Adult: Are you going listen to me or just poop your diapers?

Baby: Dude, I’m EIGHT DAYS OLD. Not strong on the multitasking at this point in time.

(Originally posted to Facebook on March 3, 2015 at 4:07 PM)

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