High Performance Biological Pairwise Sequence Alignment: FPGA versus GPU versus Cell BE versus GPP

Table 11

Performance per $ and per watt for each technology using the GPP implementation of [21] and GPU implementation of [23].

Platform	Performance (MCUPS) per $	Performance (MCUPS) per watt
FPGA	0.34	508
GPU	1.27	196
Cell BE	0.17	27
GPP	1.18	13.7