“…[4][5][6][7] Amdahl's performance law is a very useful tool for imparting the notion that when a computational problem does not have unlimited parallelism, the utility of a massively parallel solution might be quite modest-in other words, indivisible parts of a computational task will lead to all but one of the processors remaining idle for extended time periods. Subsequent to Amdahl's original formulation, researchers have found the law, which quantifies the performance benefits of parallel processing, to be applicable to many other domains of system design as well.…”