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Table 5 Mean execution times, speedups and parallel efficiency (Experiment 2 - Buz.fasta - 805 MB) - SparkBLAST vs CloudBLAST - Microsoft Azure

From: SparkBLAST: scalable BLAST processing using in-memory operations

# 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