The document discusses using cloud-scale computing for genomic analysis. It provides timing and cost estimates for running a genomic analysis pipeline called Myrna on Amazon EC2 using different numbers of compute nodes. The analysis of 1.1 billion reads would take 4 hours and 20 minutes on 1 master and 10 worker nodes at a cost of $44, or 1 hour and 38 minutes on 1 master and 40 workers at a cost of $66. It also discusses strategies for running genomic tools on cloud infrastructure or single computers.