The y-axis denotes the average time (in microseconds) to allocate and release one message.
Plasmas from the flashboards propagate toward the axis of the flashboard circle with typical velocity of a few centimeters per microsecond.
In current practice, typical simulations are performed on nanosecond time intervals, with unusual examples stretching to a microsecond.
The discharge process in a thundercloud lasts a few hundred milliseconds, while the laser can be triggered within microseconds.
If this were achieved, movements of subunits or folding events could be followed down to microseconds in real time.
Individual turns form in times of the order of a microsecond.
Local secondary structures can form in microseconds while long-range helices or loop-loop interactions may require an extensive conformational search and are likely to be slower.
The software is run while receiving echoes and processes all eight channels within 150 instruction cycles or two microseconds.
