Cloud-based Usage

Through a web-interface, the user can start a computer cluster on the cloud and run software tools on it. These tools do not run as a multi-user system installed on a certain local infrastructure. Rather, a separate infrastructure (composed of a computer cluster) with the whole system is created on the cloud for each user. That is, many users have many independent systems on many independent machines.
It is possible that the user uploads a tool of interest to be executed on the cloud cluster or use our set composed of more than 200 bioinformatics software tools. The collection of these tools and their web-interface is part of the NUBIOS (Nile University Bioinformatics Server) project.

There are two options of using elasticHPC from this web-site

Use of free version of elasticHPC system; where we take over the cost of running that version. In this mode, the computation time is limited to one day and the cluster size is limited to 4 nodes.

Use of elasticHPC from another Amazon account; where the user takes over the cost of establishing the cluster and carrying out the computation. In this case, the user is required to enter his Amazon account information to proceed in the system. In this version, the user is free to set a cluster of any number of nodes and to let it run until computation is over.