Translational bioinformatics in the cloud: an affordable alternative

Table 1 Performance and economic metrics for eQTL analysis for cloud-based and local compute clusters

	eQTL analysis on AWS cloud	eQTL analysis on local cluster
Running time	6 days 0.1 hours	5 days 11.9 hours
Total CPUs	198	198
Cost per CPU	$0.19	$0.06
Total analysis cost	$5,417.28	$1,710.00

Per CPU costs for the local cluster were estimated using the cost structure detailed in Table 2.

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