Research Article

Developing eThread Pipeline Using SAGA-Pilot Abstraction for Large-Scale Structural Bioinformatics

Table 2

The summary of EC2 instance types used for this study. For the instance type, E stands for economical, G for general purpose, M for memory-optimized, C for compute-optimized, and S for storage-optimized, following the description from Amazon. Nonsupporting threading tools are identified based on the profiling results of the previous work [28]. The cost information is obtained from the AWS site as of this writing and the unit is $0.02 which is the pricing for t1.micro.

InstanceTypeNumber of coresMemory (GB)Nonsupport threading toolsRelative cost

t1.microE 10.613HHpred, COMPASS, SAM-T2K, pGenThreader, SPARKS, SP31
m1.smallG11.7COMPASS, SAM-T2K, pGenThreader3
m1.mediumG13.7SAM-T2K6
m1.largeM27.5None12
c1.mediumC21.7COMPASS, SAM-T2K, pGenThreader7.25
c1.xlargeC87 None29
hi1.4xlargeS1660.5None155