Description
If your company is considering running your genomics workloads in the public cloud, keep in mind that Virtual Machines (VMs) can vary widely in terms of both their performance and costs. To benchmark the time and cost benefits, Intel tested Microsoft Azure VM clusters from three categories:
• Ddv4 series VMs, featuring exclusively 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
• Dv2 series VMs, with CPUs ranging from fourth-generation Intel Core™ i-series processors to 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
• Default configuration VMs from the following series: A, Av2, Dv2, Dv3, Ls, Fsv2, with CPUs ranging from second-generation Intel Core processors to 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Testing used the Cromwell on Azure benchmark to measure the performance of the Genomics Analytics Toolkit (GATK) application. The test workflow comprised 24 tasks. In this brief, we look at relative performance and costs both for the entire set of tasks and for one of the most resource-intensive tasks.