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Table 1 Characteristics of the different VM types and sizes (columns 2–5) and results of the execution speed test (columns 6–8) and the reducer test (columns 9 and 10)

From: Monte Carlo verification of radiotherapy treatments with CloudMC

VM type

CPU cores

RAM (GB)

Disk (GB)

Cost (€/h)

CPU time (min)

Rel. Time

Cost. Eff.

Merging time (min)

Upload time (min)

Small (A1)

1

1.75

225

0.0675

11.30

1.00

1.00

18.9

6.7

Medium (A2)

2

3.5

490

0.135

11.60

1.03

2.05

15.4

6.7

Large (A3)

4

7

1000

0.2699

11.87

1.05

4.20

11.5

6.7

D1

1

3.5

50

0.1249

7.32

0.65

1.20

19.8

5.2

D1_v2

1

3.5

50

0.1249

5.47

0.48

0.90

18.1

7.0

D2_v2

2

7

100

0.2505

5.08

0.45

1.67

8.3

7.0

D2_v3

2

8

16

0.1788

5.65

0.50

1.32

11.2

6.3

D3_v2

4

14

200

0.5001

5.48

0.48

3.59

3.6

6.4

D4_v2

8

28

400

1.001

5.09

0.45

6.68

3.9

4.0

D11

2

14

100

0.291

7.58

0.67

2.89

6.1

5.3

D11_v2

2

14

100

0.291

5.53

0.49

2.11

4.3

5.6

E2_v3

2

16

32

0.2126

5.65

0.50

1.57

4.1

5.5

E4_v3

4

32

64

0.4251

5.70

0.50

3.18

4.0

4.0

G1

2

28

384

0.6496

262

0.39

3.72

3.4

3.9

G2

4

56

768

1.2987

293

0.43

8.31

3.3

3.6

  1. Most optimal cost-efficiency value highlighted in bold