Symbol or phrase
| Symbol or phrase | Latex format (italicize symbols) | Definition | Author | Comment | Editing comments |
| p | p | Number of processors or cores | Sushil Prasad | Processors, cores, and nodes are alternative ways of describing the number of processing units employed. The same symbol can be used if the description of a parallel algorithm or program uses “processes” or another abstraction for processing units | |
| T1* |  | Fastest sequential time | This (usually) corresponds to the best sequential algorithm | ||
| Tp | Tp | Execution time of a parallel program/algorithm using p processors | T1 is thus the time taken by a parallel program using one processor and may involve parallel overheads. ... |
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