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	Gene Amdahle
		Gene Myron Amdahl was born in South Dakota in 1922.
		Amdahl became an IBM Fellow and was able to pursue his own research projects.
		Gene Amdahl continues his quest to merge mainframe technologies with the more popular PC technology.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/amdahl_gene.htm (1207 words)

	Gene Amdahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gene Myron Amdahl (born November 16, 1922) is an American computer architect and hi-tech entrepreneur of Norwegian descent, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at International Business Machines (IBM) and later his own companies.
		Amdahl was born to immigrant parents in Flandreau, South Dakota.
		Amdahl was named an IBM Fellow in 1965, became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1967 and was recognized as the Centennial Alumnus of South Dakota State University in 1986.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gene_Amdahl (694 words)

	Amdahl Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amdahl Corporation was founded by Dr. Gene Amdahl, a former IBM employee, in 1970, and specializes in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products.
		Amdahl was a major supplier of large mainframe computers, and later of UNIX and Open systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, application development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services.
		Amdahl owed some of its success to antitrust settlements between IBM and the U.S. Department of Justice which assured that Amdahl's customers could license IBM's mainframe software under reasonable terms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amdahl (665 words)

	Knowledge King - Gene Amdahl (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gene Myron Amdahl (born November 16, 1922) is a computer scientist, chiefly known for his work on mainframes at IBM and others.
		He left IBM again in 1970, after his ideas for computer development were rejected, and set up Amdahl Corporation in Sunnyvale, California with aid from Fujitsu.
		Amdahl left his company in 1980 to set up Trilogy Systems.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/g/ge/gene_amdahl.html (325 words)

	Breaking News
		Amdahl's Law, though never before proven through a mathematical derivation from first principles, helped establish the supercomputing industry and has for more than 30 years been a force in the industry.
		Gene Amdahl, a recognized authority on parallel processing, crafted "Amdahl's Law" in 1967, which states that there are communication issues that eventually place an upper limit on the maximum speed of parallel processing systems, therefore mitigating much of the benefit of parallelization.
		For 35 plus years, traditional non-mathematic interpretations of Amdahl's Law have led developers of supercomputers to believe that only 20 percent or less efficiency was possible through parallel processing, with larger machines achieving only 7 percent to 10 percent efficiency.
	www.taborcommunications.com /breaking/2340.html (452 words)

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		Amdahl Corp. Amdahl Corp. was founded in the early 1970s by Gene Amdahl to make high-performance IBM System/360s.
		Amdahl was formerly the head of an IBM laboratory that built a high-performance computer, but the laboratory was closed because IBM felt that the demand for, and profitability of, large systems was low and the development cost too high.
		When Amdahl entered the market, the cost of mainframe computing dropped by 40 percent and continued to decline at a rate of 15 percent per year.
	research.microsoft.com /~gbell/High_Tech_Ventures/00000248.htm (425 words)

	Expert About am:Amdahl
		Amdahl's Law expresses the speedup of parallel processing as a function of the number of processors N and the length of the portion of sequencial code used (from 0 to 1): Speed_Up = 1/(a + (1 - a)/N).
		Amdahl develops and deploys systems, services and support that meet the needs of the world's most compute-intensive organizations and environments.
		Amdahl has begun shipping its new Platinum/400 RAID storage subsystem for S/390 environments with 36GB drives, promising twice the capacity of 18GB drives without any increase in footprint, power consumption, or cooling requirements.
	expertsite.biz /dir/am/Amdahl.htm (1529 words)

	Parallel Processing Pioneer Joins Massively Parallel Technologies
		"Gene Amdahl is considered one of the fathers of supercomputing.
		He has made significant contributions to the supercomputing industry including his pioneering work in parallel processing." Gene Amdahl is a recognized authority on parallel processing.
		He crafted "Amdahl's Law" in 1967, which states that in parallelization there are issues that will eventually place an upper limit on the maximal speed of the system, therefore mitigating much of the benefit of parallelization.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-23-2004/0002499501&EDATE= (399 words)

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		Gene Amdahl's WISC is currently on display at the The Computer Museum History Center's Visible Storage Exhibit Area.
		Gene Myron Amdahl was born in Flandreau, South Dakota in 1922.
		When Gene declared his intention to go to South Dakota State to study engineering, his father encouraged him to get a liberal arts education instead, emphasizing that learning how to make a living was not as important as learning how to get the most out of life.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/amdahl-bio-core-1-4.html (1211 words)

	Amdahl's Law
		We now have timing results for a 1024-processor system that demonstrate that the assumptions underlying Amdahl's 1967 argument are inappropriate for the current approach to massive ensemble parallelism.
		We feel that it is important for the computing research community to overcome the "mental block" against massive parallelism imposed by a misuse of Amdahl's speedup formula; speedup should be measured by scaling the problem to the number of processors, not fixing problem size.
		Amdahl, G.M. Validity of the single-processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities.
	www.scl.ameslab.gov /Publications/Gus/AmdahlsLaw/Amdahls.html (612 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Legend of Amdahl (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The engineer's name was Gene Amdahl, and he had been instrumental in developing the IBM 360 - the mainframe that introduced the world to large-scale computing.
		Early on, Amdahl began to guard itself aginst the volatility of its industry and initiated a diversification into communicaitons systems and storage devices.
		Amdahl was above all a community of outstanding people, and that community is conspicuous by its absence from these pages.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0945903197 (932 words)

	Computer History Museum - Lectures - The Founding of Amdahl Corporation
		Gene Myron Amdahl received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University in 1948, and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1952.
		Amdahl left IBM Corporation in the fall of 1970 to create more innovative mainframe computers.
		Amdahl Corporation was the first successful IBM-compatible CPU manufacturer, opening the door for competition to advance technology.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/lectures/amdahl_09052001 (421 words)

	Amdahl's Law (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amdahl's Law is a law governing the speedup of using parallel processors on a problem, versus using only one serial processor.
		Overhead alone would then place an upper limit on throughput of five to seven times the sequential processing rate, even if the housekeeping were done in a separate processor...At any point in time it is difficult to foresee how the previous bottlenecks in a sequential computer will be effectively overcome.
		When B is constant (recall B = the percentage of the strictly parallel portion of the program), Amdahl's Law yields a speedup curve which is logarithmic and remains below the line S=N. This law shows that it is indeed the algorithm and not the number of processors which limits the speedup.
	home.wlu.edu /~whaleyt/classes/parallel/topics/amdahl.html (474 words)

	Gene Amdahl — A Living Legend
		A highly honored individual, Gene Amdahl is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society.
		Gene holds a B.S.E.P degree from South Dakota State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin.
		She called back and said that Gene Amdahl had invited me to Trilogy, and I was thrilled.
	www.b-eye-network.com /view/2459 (724 words)

	Excite -
		Gene Amdahl quit his job at IBM in 1970, after the company rejected his idea for a more advanced computer.
		Amdahl's present strategy is to exploit its more lucrative support services arm.
		Amdahl's strategy is to first supply the hardware a corporation needs, and then to offer related operational and consulting services.
	www1.excite.com /home/careers/company_profile/0,15623,982,00.html (869 words)

	SkillCircle: High Tech Snapshots
		Gene Amdahl quit his job at IBM in 1970, after the company rejected his idea for a more advanced computer.
		Amdahl's strategy is to first supply the hardware a corporation needs, and then to offer related operational and consulting services.
		In 2000, Amdahl is planning to introduce the GS2000C, which will have a capacity of up to 1,600 MIPS, and the GS2000E, which will have a capacity of up to 2,000 MIPS.
	www.skillcircle.com /resources/profiles/730.html (523 words)

	Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI) The New Choice in Mainframe Computers.
		Gene Amdahl is the founding member of the PSI Advisory Committee.
		Amdahl's leadership led to assignments in the design of the IBM 709 and IBM 7030.
		Amdahl is best known for founding Amdahl Corporation in 1970, for it became one of IBM's principal competitors and the first successful IBM compatible manufacturer.
	www.platform-solutions.com /about-advisory.php (324 words)

	Embedded.com - What Amdahl's Law can tell us about multicores and multiprocessing
		But as we make this move, it is important to keep yet another “law” – Gene Amdahl’s – in mind, as a guide to where we can go with this approach, where it is most useful and where it is not.
		Simply stated, Gene Amdahl’s law of parallel computing states that the speedup of a parallel algorithm is limited by the fraction of the problem that must be performed sequentially; that is, your design is only as strong as its weakest link.
		Amdahl’s Law of parallel computing assumes that no matter how many processing units are available, a sequential portion of the code may need to be executed.
	www.embedded.com /showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173603024 (1820 words)

	Eugene Amdahl's Bio (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gene Myron Amdahl received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University in 1948, and earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1952.
		Amdahl left IBM Corporation in the fall of 1970 to create more innovative mainframe computers.
		Amdahl Corporation was the first successful IBM-compatible CPU manufacturer, opening the door for competition to advance technology.
	actscorp.com /acts/amdahl.htm (275 words)

	Massively Parallel Technologies Hosts Discussion With Newly Appointed Advisory Board Members Dr. Gene Amdahl and Dr. ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Both Dr. Amdahl and Dr. Duncan recently joined the MPT's Board of Advisors and were present to speak about issues surrounding parallel processing.
		Gene Amdahl crafted "Amdahl's Law" in 1967, which states that in parallelization there are issues that will eventually place an upper limit on the maximal speed of the system, therefore mitigating much of the benefit of parallelization.
		During the presentation Amdahl spoke about the history of parallel processing, his revolutionary work in the field and endorsed MPT's work surrounding Amdahl's Law.
	www.forrelease.com /D20050106/lath087.P2.01062005101328.21966.html (478 words)

	Amdahl-580-computer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amdahl Corporation was founded by Dr. Gene Amdahl.
		Amdahl was born in South Dakota and grew up on a farm.
		Amdahl Corporation had achieved $321 million in sales by 1979.
	csrc.lse.ac.uk /History/Amdahl-580-computer.htm (136 words)

	Amdahl Definition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		(Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, www.amdahl.com) A computer manufacturer founded in 1970 by Dr. Gene Amdahl, chief architect of the IBM System/360.
		In 1997, Amdahl became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fujitsu Limited family of companies, with whom it had a long-standing business relationship, including significant financial investment from the beginning.
		In 1979, Amdahl left the company he founded to form Trilogy, which tried without success to make the world's largest chip based on wafer scale integration.
	www.eweek.com /encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=Amdahl&i=37713,00.asp (514 words)

	WISC
		Gene Amdahl was the designer (or perhaps architect) of the WISC, which was the first pipelined machine.
		Gene Amdahl and Dr. Charles Davidson, came to Peterson in 1950 with the idea of building a digital computer.
		The law assumes that a single job is executed, that the amount of parallel work in a job does not scale with the number of processors and that processors not utilized due to limitations of parallelism in the job, are left idle.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/wisc.html (2628 words)

	GENE AMDAHL FIGHTS TO SALVAGE A WRECK His failed supercomputer swallowed most of the $230 million that investors bet on ...
		GENE AMDAHL FIGHTS TO SALVAGE A WRECK His failed supercomputer swallowed most of the $230 million that investors bet on Trilogy Ltd. Now the wizard of high tech is trying a new strategy.
		Perceiving Amdahl to be one of the trailblazing geniuses of the computer age, they endowed Trilogy with the biggest start-up kitty ever: $230 million.
		Amdahl pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of misdemeanor manslaughter, and his insurance companies settled the civil suit out of court for an undisclosed sum.
	money.cnn.com /magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/01/67982/index.htm (2767 words)

	Eugene Amdahl's Bio
		Gene Myron Amdahl received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University in 1948, and earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1952.
		Andor International, Ltd. was founded by Dr. Amdahl in 1987 to continue innovations in technology.
		CDS is a development stage company with plans to design a computer with the power and functionality of traditional mainframe at a comparable size and serviceability of smaller personal computers and network servers.
	www.actscorp.com /acts/amdahl.htm (275 words)

	CMSC 411 Project - Fall 1998 - History
		A man by the name of Gene Amdahl is the principal architect on the project, and it becomes the first commercial machine with floating-point hardware.
		In 1967, Gene Amdahl and Daniel Slotnick have published debate at AFIPS Conference about the feasibility of parallel processing.
		Amdahl's argument about limits to parallelism becomes known as "Amdahl's Law".
	www.cs.umd.edu /class/fall2001/cmsc411/projects/parallel2/history.html (986 words)

	Mailgate: comp.sys.ibm.sys3x.misc: Gene Amdahl Lecture Invitation Sept. 5, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BACKGROUND OF SPEAKER Gene Myron Amdahl received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University in 1948, and earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1952.
		Amdahl is perhaps best known for founding Amdahl Corporation, one of IBM's main competitors.
		In the first full year of shipments, Amdahl shipped $96 million in product, the second full year $190 million, and the third year $320 million.
	www.mailgate.org /comp/comp.sys.ibm.sys3x.misc/msg00551.html (786 words)

	Massively Parallel Technologies hosts discussion with newly appointed Advisory Board Members Dr. Gene Amdahl and Dr. ...
		Both Dr. Amdahl and Dr. Duncan recently joined the MPT's Board of Advisors and were present to speak about issues surrounding parallel processing.
		Gene Amdahl crafted "Amdahl's Law" in 1967, which states that in parallelization there are issues that will eventually place an upper limit on the maximal speed of the system, therefore mitigating much of the benefit of
		During the presentation Amdahl spoke about the history of parallel processing, his revolutionary work in the field and endorsed MPT's work surrounding Amdahl's Law.
	www.hoise.com /primeur/05/articles/monthly/AE-PR-02-05-4.html (420 words)

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