Amdahl's Law is easy to misapply on both sides of the fence. If what you care about is mostly weak scaling (using larger machines to solve larger problems), th

Amdahl's Law is easy to misapply on both sides of the fence. If what you care about is mostly weak scaling (using larger machines to solve larger problems), the Law is not as harsh as it appears at first glance, as in many cases the parallel fraction increases as the workload does.