Review Article
High Performance Biological Pairwise Sequence Alignment: FPGA versus GPU versus Cell BE versus GPP
Table 6
Cost of purchase and development of the Smith-Waterman algorithm implementation on all four technologies.
| | Platform | Purchase cost ($) | Development cost ($) | Overall cost ($) | Normalized overall cost |
| | FPGA | 10,000 | 48,000 | 58,000 | 50 | | GPU | 1450 | 7,200 | 8,650 | 8 | | Cell BE | 8,000 | 14,400 | 22,400 | 19 | | GPP | 1000 | 160 | 1160 | 1 |
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