pulsar-app 0.3.0

Distributed job execution application built for Galaxy (http://galaxyproject.org/).

This project is a Python server application that allows a Galaxy server to run jobs on remote systems (including Windows) without requiring a shared mounted file systems. Unlike traditional Galaxy job runners - input files, scripts, and config files may be transferred to the remote system, the job is executed, and the results are transfered back to the Galaxy server - eliminating the need for a shared file system.

Full documentation for the project can be found on Read The Docs.

Configuring Galaxy

Galaxy job runners are configured in Galaxy’s job_conf.xml file. Some small examples of how to configure this can be found here, but be sure to checkout job_conf.xml.sample_advanced in your Galaxy code base or on Github for complete information.

Quickstart

Full details on different ways to install Pulsar can be found in the install section of the documentaiton, but if your machine has the proper Python dependencies available it can be quickly download and a test job run with.

mkdir pulsar
cd pulsar
virtualenv venv
. venv/bin/activate # .venv\Scripts\activate if Windows
pip install pulsar-app
pulsar-config
pulsar --daemon # just pulsar if Windows
pulsar-check # runs a test job

The configuration documentation has many details on securing your Pulsar server and enabling advanced features such as cluster integration and message queue communication.

Development and Testing

The recommended approach to setting up a development environment for Pulsar on Linux or Mac OS X is rougly as follows:

git clone https://github.com/galaxyproject/pulsar
cd pulsar
virtualenv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate # .venv\Scripts\activate if Windows
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

This project is distributed with unit and integration tests (many of which will not run under Windows), the following command will install the needed python components to run these tests. The following command will then run these tests:

make tests

The following command will then produce a coverage report corresponding to this test and place it in the coverage_html_report subdirectory of this project.:

coverage html

Checkout the Contributing documentation for many more details on developing and contributing to Pulsar.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

History

0.3.0 (2015-04-12)

• Changed the name of project to Pulsar, moved to Github.

• New RESTful web services interface.

• SCP and Rsync file staging options added by Eric Rasche. Pull Request

• Allow YAML based configuration.

• Support for more traditional pip/setup.py-style installs.

• Dozens of smaller bugfixes and documentation updates.

0.2.0

• Last version named the LWR - found on BitBucket.

• Still supported in Galaxy as of 15.03 the release.

• Introduced support for submitting to various queueing systems, operation as a Mesos framework, Docker support, and various other advanced deployment options.

• Message queue support.

• Framework for configurable file actions introduced.

0.1.0

• Simple support for running jobs managed by the Python LWR web process.

• https://bitbucket.org/jmchilton/lwr/branch/0.1

0.0.1

• See the original announcement and initial commit.