Gene Amdahl

Gene Amdahl was an American computer scientist known for formulating Amdahl's Law, which predicts the maximum improvement expected from enhancing a part of a system. In simple terms, it explains that when you upgrade a component (like adding more processors to a computer), the overall speed-up is limited by the portion of the process that cannot be improved. For example, if 20% of a task can't be sped up, even infinite resources won’t make the total task finish faster than a certain point. This helps in understanding the potential benefits and limits of system improvements.