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Table 3 Running times of the metagenomics experiment in the cloud

From: Personalized cloud-based bioinformatics services for research and education: use cases and the elasticHPC package

Dataset

AWS Cores

 
 

1

8

16

32

64

c1.xlarge (8 cores)

 
 

1 node

1 node

2 nodes

4 nodes

8 nodes

Trip A Left

93 ($1.32)

27 ($0.66)

20 ($1.32)

13 ($2.64)

9($5.28)

Trip A Right

127 ($1.98)

33 ($0.66)

21 ($1.32)

13 ($2.64)

7($5.28)

Trip B Left

80 ($1.32)

25 ($0.66)

17 ($1.32)

13 ($2.64)

7($5.28)

Trip B Right

65 ($1.32)

23 ($0.66)

13 ($1.32)

8 ($2.64)

6($5.28)

Total

365 ($4.62)

108 ($1.19)

71 ($2.64)

47 ($2.64)

29($5.28)

m1.xlarge (4 cores)

 
 

1 node

2 nodes

4 nodes

8 nodes

16 nodes

Trip A Left

77 ($1.28)

18 ($0.64)

13 ($2.64)

9 ($5.12)

7($10.24)

Trip A Right

119 ($1.28)

34 ($0.64)

25 ($2.64)

16 ($5.12)

10($10.24)

Trip B Left

70 ($1.28)

31 ($0.64)

23 ($2.64)

15 ($5.12)

9($10.24)

Trip B Right

65 ($1.28)

27 ($0.64)

13 ($2.64)

9 ($5.12)

6($10.24)

Total

331 ($2.56)

110 ($1.28)

74 ($5.12)

49 ($5.12)

32($10.24)

  1. The average running times in minutes for traditional computer clusters of different sizes and machine types in the cloud. The machine types are c1.xlarge and m1.xlarge. The numbers in brackets are the computation costs in US Dollar for the US-East site with $0.66 per hour for c1.xlarge and $0.64 per hour for m1.xlarge. (Note that partial computing hour of an instance is billed on Amazon as a full hour) The cost in the column titled "Total Time" is not the summation of the above rows, but it is the cost of the total running time if the four datasets in the respective column were processed altogether in the cluster.
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