Table 5 Speedup factors for hardware program.
From: Parallel Backprojection: A Case Study in High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing
| Nodes | Ratio compared to | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hardware | N software | 1 software | |
| 1 | 1.0 | 77.8 | 77.8 |
| 2 | 1.9 | 75.8 | 149.8 |
| 4 | 3.9 | 76.5 | 299.8 |
| 8 | 6.0 | 61.1 | 463.0 |