Research Article
Cloud Infrastructures for In Silico Drug Discovery: Economic and Practical Aspects
Table 2
Characteristics of the considered Amazon EC2 instance types.
| | Amazon EC2 instance types | RAM | EC2 compute unit | Storage | On Demand instances
price/h | Heavy utilization reserved instances
price/h |
| | A: High-Memory Double eXtra Large | 34.2 GB | 13 | 850 GB | $0.9 | $0.176 | | B: High-Memory Quadruple XL | 68.4 GB | 26 | 1690 GB | $1.8 | $0.352 | | C: Cluster Compute Quadruple XL | 23 GB | 33.5 | 1690 GB | $1.3 | $0.297 | | D: Cluster Compute Eight XL | 60.5 GB | 88 | 3370 GB | $2.4 | $0.361 |
|
|
