Suppose a program segment consists of a purely sequential part which takes 100 cycles to execute, and an iterated loop which takes 400 cycles per iteration. Assume that the loop is dependent on the sequential part, i.e., both parts cannot run in parallel. Also assume that the loop iterations are independent, and cannot be further parallelized. If the loop is to be executed 100 times, what is the maximum speedup possible using an infinite number of processors (as many processors as you could possibly need) compared to a single processor?

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Suppose a program segment consists of a purely sequential part which takes 100 cycles to execute, and an iterated loop which takes 400 cycles per iteration. Assume that the loop is dependent on the sequential part, i.e., both parts cannot run in parallel. Also assume that the loop iterations are independent, and cannot be further parallelized. If the loop is to be executed 100 times, what is the maximum speedup possible using an infinite number of processors (as many processors as you could possibly need) compared to a single processor? 

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