Table 4.

Experiment 4: Execution times for ternary samples experiment using 1 GPU.

GRN size	CPU	32 targets/bl	64 targets/bl	128 targets/bl
1024	4.2 min	48.5 s	28.7 s	13.5 s
2048	36.9 min	5 min	3.9 min	53 s
4096	5.6 h	33.8 min	24.5 min	7.4 min
8192	1.9 days	4.7 h	2.7 h	45.3 min

Columns from left to right: different sizes of GRNs (number of genes); execution times of the 6 core CPU algorithm; execution times for 3 experiments using the GPU algorihm: 32, 64 and 128 target genes per block using 1 GPU.