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Table 2 Execution time in seconds for various numbers of microRNA sequences against a reference dataset.

From: GAMUT: GPU accelerated microRNA analysis to uncover target genes through CUDA-miRanda

# of queries

1 GPU

2 GPUs

4 GPUs

miRanda on CPU

4GPUs vs. CPU

 

Time

GCUPs

Time

GCUPs

Time

GCUPs

Time

Speedup

1

2.48

0.06

1.44

0.1

1.25

0.12

7

5x

32

2.59

1.8

1.92

2.44

1.39

3.38

177

127x

64

5.08

1.79

2.86

3.17

1.97

4.62

288

146x

128

9.89

1.79

5.58

3.17

3.63

4.89

580

159x

256

19.25

1.8

10.49

3.3

6.47

5.36

1076

166x

  1. The reference dataset contained 256 sequences with average length of 20K. The orignial miRanda 3.3 on CPU and our proposed CUDA-miRanda on GPUs were compared.