For parallel applications, speedup is typically defined as

• Speedup \( =T_1/T_p \)

Here \( T_1 \) is the time on one processor and \( T_p \) is the time using \( p \) processors.

• Can the speedup become larger than \( p \)? That means using \( p \) processors is more than \( p \) times faster than using one processor.