Cloudbiolinux = Genomics resources for use on cloud platforms. Includes:– An Amazon Machine Image with

lots of handy bioinformatics software pre-installed.

– Eucalyptus image–…

Cloudbiolinux is good for…

• You need lots of bioinformatics software and don’t want to bother installing all of it.

• You need a cluster to compute your job and you need some/lots of bioinformatics software pre-installed.

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Using cloudbiolinux

1. Fire up an individual EC2 instance using the AMIs

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Using cloudbiolinux

1. Fire up an individual EC2 instance using the AMIs

2. Create a cluster using biocloudcentral.

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Head node (“master”)

Transient NFS

Compute nodes

Instance storage

Compute jobs (SGE)

Head node (“master”)

Transient NFS

Compute nodes

Instance storage

Input data

Head node (“master”)

Transient NFS

Compute nodes

Instance storageOutput

data

Head node (“master”)

Transient NFS

Compute nodes

Instance storageOutput

data

Post-processed data

Points to remember

• Select the right size worker nodes for your jobs.

• Job allocation scheme used in SGE can be adjusted for your needs.

• You can add EBS volumes if you want to save the data and compute again later.