Table showing parallel run times of FFTbor, using OpenMP http://openmp.org/. Column headers 2,3, etc. indicate the number of cores used in the computational experiment.

For each sequence length , five random RNAs were generated using equal probability for each nucleotide A,C,G,U. Run time in seconds, plus or minus one standard deviation, are given for a 24-core AMD Opteron 6172 with 2.10 GHz and 64 GB RAM. Least-squares fit of the data indicates a quadratic dependency of run time on sequence length (despite the obvious theoretical run time), and a power law dependence of approximately on the number of cores .