Table 1 Comparison between elasticHPC, Vappio, starCluster, and Cloudman
Feature | elasticHPC | Vappio | StarCluster | Cloudman |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Create a cloud cluster | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Create a MapReduce cluster | Y | N | N | N |
Web-interface | Y | N | N | Y |
Command line interface | Y | Y | Y | N |
Multi-user | Y | N | N | Y |
NFS as shared file system | Y | N | Y | Y |
S3 as shared file system | Y | N | N | N |
Persistent storage after termination | EBS+S3 | Manual | Manual | EBS |
Data flow model | fetch/shared/replicate | replicate | shared | Shared |
Cluster management at run-time | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Remote job submission | Y | Y | N | N |
Remote job monitoring | Y | Y | N | N |
Associated bioinformatics tools | Y | N | N | Y |
Use of spot instances | Y | N | N | N |