Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer (died 2015)

Gene Amdahl

American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur

Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel…