Amdahl's Reliability Law: A Simple Quantification of the Weakest-Link Phenomenon.

Amdahl's performance law is a useful conceptual and pedagogical tool for imparting key ideas about performance limits and the importance of balanced system design to students and practitioners in the field. The weakest-link maxim of reliability engineering can be expressed in terms of an identical f...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 48; no. 7; pp. 55 - 59
Main Author: Parhami, Behrooz
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Jul2015
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        balanced design
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        Failure analysis
        failure-rate allotment
        Program processors
        reliability engineering
        System analysis and design
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      ab: Amdahl's performance law is a useful conceptual and pedagogical tool for imparting key ideas about performance limits and the importance of balanced system design to students and practitioners in the field. The weakest-link maxim of reliability engineering can be expressed in terms of an identical formula, giving it a quantitative basis and thus making it more convincing. Calling it "Amdahl's reliability law" stresses the fact that it follows directly from Amdahl's speedup formula.
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