Table 2.
Resources, runtimes and costs
| 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 |
Amazon EC instance types
c1.xlarge, previous generation: 8 virtual CPUs, 7GB RAM, at $0.520 per hour
m1.xlarge, previous generation: 4 virtual CPUs, 15GB RAM, at, $0.350 per hour
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