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. 2017 Jun 27;18:318. doi: 10.1186/s12859-017-1723-8

Table 5.

Mean execution times, speedups and parallel efficiency (Experiment 2 - Buz.fasta - 805 MB) - SparkBLAST vs CloudBLAST - Microsoft Azure

# cores 4 12 28 60 124 252
SparkBLAST 143,228.95 47,031.62 24,850.51 11,692.45 6,041.64 3,138.64
Speedup 3.83 11.67 22.09 46.95 90.86 174.89
Efficiency 0.96 0.97 0.79 0.78 0.73 0.69
CloudBLAST 148,512.95 47,950.05 26,858.71 11,951.11 6,993.52 3,879.06
Speedup 3.7 11.45 20.44 45.93 78.49 141.51
Efficiency 0.92 0.95 0.73 0.77 0.63 0.56