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Steen, M., & Tanenbaum, A. (2016). A brief introduction to distributed systems. Computing, 98(10), 967–1009.

This journal presents an abstract of the textbook published by the authors, and serves as an excellent introductory reading, setting the pace for the rest of the coursework.

Eremin, E. A. (2017). Educational multiprocessor simulator “E14” and its usage for expanding the formula of Amdahl’s Law[Conference presentation]. 2017 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 241–245.

This resource will help you understand more about Amdahl’s law.

Denning, P. J., & Lewis, T. G. (2017). Gustafson’s Law contradicts theory results. Communications of the ACM, 60(4), 8.

This resource will help you understand how Gustafson’s law works.

Al-hayanni, M. A. N., Xia, F., Rafiev, A., Romanovsky, A., Shafik, R., & Yakovlev, A. (2020). Amdahl’s law in the context of heterogeneous many-core systems – a survey. IET Computers & Digital Techniques, 14(4), 133.

This resource compares Amdahl’s and Gustafson laws for heterogenous core processors.