In Its Simplest Form,Amdahl's Law Maintains That If a Given

question 12

Multiple Choice

In its simplest form,Amdahl's Law maintains that if a given program would take one hour to run to completion with one processor,but 80 percent of the program had to run sequentially (and therefore could not be sped up by applying additional processors to it) ,then a resulting parallel program would run only a maximum of ____ percent faster.

• A) 5
• B) 10
• C) 20
• D) 25

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