Abstract
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.
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InterconnectionComputer scienceParallel computingScale (ratio)Computer architectureDistributed computingComputer network
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Gene M. Amdahl
(1967).
Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities.
, 483-483.
https://doi.org/10.1145/1465482.1465560
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- 10.1145/1465482.1465560