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Table 2 Resources, runtimes and costs

From: CloVR-Comparative: automated, cloud-enabled comparative microbial genome sequence analysis pipeline

 

Amazon EC2

  

Local desktop

 

Dataset

Instance type

Runtime [hours]

Cost

Available resources

Runtime [hours]

Neisseria meningitidis

c1.xlarge

3.45

$1.79

2 CPUs, 8GB RAM

3.15

Legionella pneumophila

c1.xlarge

3.65

$1.90

2 CPU, 8GB RAM

3.67

Yersinia pestis

c1.xlarge

6.97

$3.62

2 CPUs, 8GB RAM

6.70

Helicobacter pylori

c1.xlarge

17.08

$8.88

2 CPUs, 8GB RAM

17.72

Streptococcus pneumoniae

c1.xlarge

16.87

$8.77

2 CPUs, 8GB RAM

15.98

Salmonella enterica

c1.xlarge

26.10

$13.57

2 CPUs, 8GB RAM

24.42

Escherichia coli

m1.xlarge

56.83

$19.89

4 CPUs, 16GB RAMa

35.07

  1. Amazon EC instance types
  2. c1.xlarge, previous generation: 8 virtual CPUs, 7GB RAM, at $0.520 per hour
  3. m1.xlarge, previous generation: 4 virtual CPUs, 15GB RAM, at, $0.350 per hour
  4. aThe local setting for the E. coli run was simulated on a server running VMware ESX, using a virtual instance with the listed CPU and memory allocations