Table 4 Performance effect of kernel shared memory.

From: Accelerating next generation sequencing data analysis with system level optimizations

Kernel shared memory size

HaplotypeCaller execution time for GATK 3.3 (in Hours)

HaplotypeCaller execution time for GATK 3.7 (in Hours)

4 GB

4.36

1.39

8 GB

3.01

1.39

64 GB

2.84

1.18

128 GB

2.51

1.14