Research Article

Parallel Seed-Based Approach to Multiple Protein Structure Similarities Detection

Table 2

Average run times, standard deviation, and speedups for varying number of cores.

Number of cores 1 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Run time (ms) 49744 25873 14269 10315 8555 7425 6668 6189 5679
Stand. deviation (ms) 458 1969 1192 604 401 284 257 197 193
Stand. deviation (%) 0.9 7.6 8.4 5.9 4.7 3.8 3.9 3.2 3.4
Speedup 1 1.9 3.5 4.8 5.8 6.7 7.5 8.0 8.8