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

Table 8

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

Platform	Idle power (watt)	Steady state power (watt)
FPGA (clocked at 80 MHz)	100	139
GPU	70	126
Cell BE	180	140
GPP	70	100