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Untrue. Large memory nodes are par the course for genomics workloads. Only a few stages of the analysis pipeline can stream the in/out effectively. Even then, going to disk for the result only to be read back is going to bottleneck your pipeline.

The authors go in more detail around this topic in: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...




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