Table 3 Details of the hardware used in the experiments.

From: Enabling scalable single-cell transcriptomic analysis through distributed computing with Apache spark

Environment

Master/Slave platform

Cumulative RAM

No. of Cores

Processor type

Python sequential

×

6GiB

4

i7, 11th gen

Single-Node Spark

6GiB

4

i7, 6th gen

2-Node Spark

6 + 6 = 12GiB

8

i7, 5th gen and 6th gen