A good exercise on using and scaling the analysis on the cloud

Question:

A workflow for variant calling was created and you would like to run it on 100 samples (85 samples have a size around 180GB (small), 15 other samples have 310 GB (large)). You know that:

How would you organize your VMs to perform the analysis in 3 days, staying within the budget?

Answer:

Option 1:

Option 2: Analyze 49 small samples in Day 1, 8 larges + 18 small Day2, 7 larges +18 small Day 3. Has the budget of 8 cores, 24hrs for re-run if necessary => Finish more large files on Day2, more prepared if some large files failed?

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