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Table 1 On-premises evaluation systems

From: DECA: scalable XHMM exome copy-number variant calling with ADAM and Apache Spark

Workstation

16-core workstation with two 8-core 2.1 GHz Intel Xeon E5–2620 CPUs, 256 GB RAM, and 16 TB of HDD in 2 × −striped JBOD (four 4 TB 7200 RPM HDDs connected via 6Gbps SATA).

Cluster

56-node Hadoop cluster with 16-core nodes managed by YARN. Each node has two 8-core 2.6 GHz Intel Xeon E5–2670 CPUs, 256 GB RAM and 4 TB of HDD (four 1 TB 7200RPM HDDs connected via 6Gpbs SATA). Nodes are connected with two 1GbE connections and one switchable 10GbE/40Gbps IB connection to a 40GbE TOR switch. HDFS was configured with 128 MB blocks and a 2× replication factor.