Figure 2

Architecture of the CloVR application. CloVR provides a virtual machine (VM) that is run on user's local desktop or laptop computer. The user interacts with the local VM via a command line or web interface to execute pipelines. Optionally, clusters of additional VM instances are provisioned on supported cloud platforms for increased throughput. Each cluster has a master VM instance that provides services for GridEngine [36] and Hadoop [37]. Input data and output data is transferred between the local VM and a master VM instance in the cloud over the Internet.