FireCloud, a scalable cloud-based platform for collaborative genome analysis: Strategies for reducing and controlling costs
Chet Birger, Megan Hanna, Edward A. Salinas, Jason Neff, Gordon Saksena, Dimitri G. Livitz, Daniel Rosebrock, Chip Stewart, Ignaty Leshchiner, Alexander Baumann, Douglas Voet, Kristian Cibulskis, Eric Banks, Anthony Philippakis, Gad A. Getz
Four levers for cheaper cloud genomics on FireCloud: size virtual disks dynamically, tune VM provisioning from monitoring data, buy preemptible machines, and parallelise tasks at the right width.
bioRxiv · Nov 3, 2017 · PreprintBioinformatics