37. BLAT @ U. PENN
Map 100 million, 100 base paired end reads
Quad core with 5 GB of RAM would take 16 days
30 high-memory instances; 32 hours; $195
38. HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS @
RHIC
Problem: Quark physics conference imminent
but no compute resources handy
Solution: NIMBUS context broker allowed
researchers to provision 300 nodes and get the
simulations done