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. 2023 Jul 31;12:giad062. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giad062

Table 9:

Execution times (seconds) using different number of cores: sort command. Highlighted are fastest time and number of times faster than sequential BigSeqKit

1 2 4 8 16 32 64 (2 nodes) 128 (4 nodes) 256 (8 nodes)
D1
samtools 1,590.3 [0.10×]
seqkit 169.0 [0.97×]
BigSeqKit 164.4 86.2 46.2 33.5 24.2 14.5 [11.3×] 13.8 13.5 12.9 [12.7×]
D2
samtools 1,672.5 [0.25×]
seqkit 1,050.5 [0.40×]
BigSeqKit 422.8 221.6 117.6 81.7 62.1 34.9 [12.1×] 21.5 15.8 13.2 [32.0×]
D3
samtools 1,203.5 [0.44×]
seqkit 497.5 [1.05×]
BigSeqKit 523.8 272.5 144.2 100.7 77.6 43.2 [12.1×] 26.5 18.6 15.8 [33.1×]
D4
samtools 3,835.1 [0.36×]
seqkit 3,122.2 [0.44×]
BigSeqKit 1,377.3 708.5 372.5 243.7 171.5 94.6 [14.6×] 57.6 46.0 36.0 [38.3×]
D5
samtools 1,899.6 [0.85×]
seqkit 3,350.4 [0.48×]
BigSeqKit 1,612.4 839.2 443.2 239.2 137.2 84.2 [19.1×] 53.4 40.2 39.2 [41.1×]
D6
samtools Out of Mem.
seqkit Out of Mem.
BigSeqKit 18,309.6 9,439.6 4,899.2 2,592.8 1,444.4 839.7 [21.8×] 215.8 165.3 139.6 [131.1×]