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

Table 9

Power and energy consumption of the Smith-Waterman algorithm implementation on all four technologies.

Platform	Power (watt)	Energy (joule)	Normalized energy consumption
FPGA (clocked at 80 MHz)	39	73	0.0017
GPU	56	1682	0.04
Cell BE	140	1317	0.03
GPP	100	42400	1