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Connecting Galaxy to a compute cluster

Abstract

The tools that are added to Galaxy can have a wide variance in the compute resources that they require and work efficiently on.

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

  • How to connect Galaxy to a compute cluster?
  • What are job metrics?
  • What sort of information can I collect?
  • Where can I find this information?

Learning Objectives

  • Be familiar with the basics of installing, configuring, and using Slurm
  • Understand all components of the Galaxy job running stack
  • Understand how the job conf controls Galaxy's jobs subsystem
  • Have a strong understanding of Galaxy job destinations
  • Understand the purpose and function of Galaxy job metrics

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: Galaxy Server administration, ansible, git-gat, jobs

Target audience: Galaxy Administrators

Resource type: e-learning

Version: 56

Status: Active

Prerequisites:

  • Ansible
  • Galaxy Installation with Ansible

Learning objectives:

  • Be familiar with the basics of installing, configuring, and using Slurm
  • Understand all components of the Galaxy job running stack
  • Understand how the job conf controls Galaxy's jobs subsystem
  • Have a strong understanding of Galaxy job destinations
  • Understand the purpose and function of Galaxy job metrics

Date modified: 2024-06-14

Date published: 2018-01-07

Authors: Björn Grüning, Helena Rasche, Nate Coraor

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