Amdahl's Law is generating debates in the community of experts dealing with parallel processing since it was suggested. The paper explains why Amdahl's Law shall be interpreted specifically for distributed parallel systems and why it generated so many debates, discussions  and abuses. A general model is set up where many of the terms affecting parallel processing are listed and the validity of neglecting certain terms in different approximations are scrutinized , with special emphasize on the famous scaling laws of parallel processing. It is clarified that using the right interpretation of terms, Amdahl's Law is the governing law of all kinds of parallel processing. Amdahl's Law describes among others the history of supercomputing, the inherent performance limitation of the different kinds of parallel processing and it is the basic Law of the 'modern computing' paradigm, that is desperately needed for the computing systems working under extreme computing conditions  .
 The paper explains why Amdahl's Law shall be interpreted specifically for distributed parallel systems and why it generated so many debates, discussions , and abuses. We set up a general model and list many of the terms affecting parallel processing . We scrutinize the validity of neglecting certain terms in different approximations , with special emphasis on the famous scaling laws of parallel processing. We clarify that when using the right interpretation of terms, Amdahl's Law is the governing law of all kinds of parallel processing. Amdahl's Law describes among others the history of supercomputing, the inherent performance limitation of the different kinds of parallel processing and it is the basic Law of the 'modern computing' paradigm, that the computing systems working under extreme computing conditions are desperately needed .
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