Research Article

Efficient Multicriteria Protein Structure Comparison on Modern Processor Architectures

Table 6

Speedup, efficiency, and throughput in pairwise-PSC tasks per second for performing MCPSC on an Intel Core i7 multicore CPU using the CK34 and RS119 datasets.

Threads Dataset CK34 Dataset RS119
Speedup Efficiency Throughput Speedup Efficiency Throughput

1 1.00 1.00 4.92 1.00 1.00 3.49
2 1.88 0.94 9.27 1.46 0.73 5.09
3 2.04 0.68 10.01 1.98 0.66 6.90
4 2.54 0.63 12.47 2.60 0.65 9.08
5 2.70 0.54 13.25 2.70 0.54 9.42
6 2.71 0.45 13.32 2.71 0.45 9.45
7 2.74 0.39 13.47 2.69 0.38 9.38
8 2.64 0.33 12.98 2.67 0.33 9.31