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Table 3 Performance Results for SSE3 and fast log approximation.

From: FPGA acceleration of the phylogenetic likelihood function for Bayesian MCMC inference methods

 

Average SW node processing time (μs)

Average HW node processing time (μs) and speedup relative to SW

Dataset

Non-root

Root node

Average

Ave. HW time/node @ 165 MHz (μs)

Speedup vs. SW

Ave. HW time/node @ 310 MHz (μs)

Speedup vs. SW

m993

16.1

43.1

17.1

6.6

2.6

3.5

4.9

m1319

20.7

54.2

22.7

9.0

2.5

4.8

4.7

m346

41.1

118.0

44.0

9.6

4.6

5.1

8.7

m1038

46.3

119.4

47.0

13.0

3.6

6.9

6.8

m1485

61.5

166.2

65.5

19.0

3.4

10.1

6.5

m4056

193.6

560.3

198.2

58.7

3.4

31.2

6.4

m3631

199.6

563.9

205.9

83.0

2.5

44.1

4.7