Gene Amdahl is a prominent American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known for his contributions to computer architecture and software engineering. He is most famously associated with Amdahl's Law, which he formulated in the 1960s. Amdahl's Law is a formula that describes the potential speedup of a computing task when using multiple processors, emphasizing that the overall performance gain is limited by the portion of the task that cannot be parallelized.
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