Redsharc: A Programming Model and On-Chip Network for Multi-Core Systems on a Programmable Chip

Table 5

Performance of one to eight BLAST cores running in a Microblaze Redsharc system. 100 MHz SSN, BSN, and BLAST Kernel Clocks.

Cores	Load queries	Speedup	BLAST Exec.	Speedup	Read results	Speedup	Total time	Total speedup
1	4309.3𝜇𝑠	1x	6767.1𝜇𝑠	1x	83.2𝜇𝑠	1x	11159.6𝜇𝑠	1x
2	3959.2𝜇𝑠	1.1x	3512.1𝜇𝑠	1.9x	77.4𝜇𝑠	1.1x	7548.7𝜇𝑠	1.5x
4	3783.3𝜇𝑠	1.1x	1820.5𝜇𝑠	3.7x	75.1𝜇𝑠	1.1x	5678.9𝜇𝑠	2.0x
8	3695.3𝜇𝑠	1.2x	947.6𝜇𝑠	7.1x	74.4𝜇𝑠	1.1x	4717.3𝜇𝑠	2.4x