The formal engineering basis of cluster computing as a means of doing parallel work of any sort was arguably invented by Gene Amdahl of IBM, who in 1967 published what has come to be regarded as the seminal paper on parallel processing: Amdahl's Law.
Formalnu osnovu cluster računarstva kao sredstva za vršenje paralelnog rada bilo kakve vrste je vjerojatno izumio Gene Amdahl iz IBM-a, koji je 1967 izdao ono što se kasnije smatralo seminarskim radom o paralelnom procesiranju: Amdahlov zakon (Amdahl's Law).