On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Yan Luo <luomails@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Dannon,

Thanks for your response. I will discuss with our manager to see if we can do sth. We want to find some solutions for our PIs. AS you mentioned.

Option 1: main.g2.bx.psu.edu, it is more stable, and recommended by you.
Option 2: test.bx.psu.edu, it provides more tools and data, is very much for testing and breaking and shouldn't be used without acknowledging that

Option 1 and 2 are free for us (NIH), are they?

Option3: From other vendors, such as "amazon" : http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ , it is not free. But it provides more tools.

Option 4: local installation, where is the official download source(link and installation)?

Option5: Cloud installation, do you have any more detailed information regarding supporting hardware and software?

Best Wishes,

Yan

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Dannon Baker <dannonbaker@me.com> wrote:

Yan,

1. Right now, we host and you can use usegalaxy.org ( main.g2.bx.psu.edu ), and test.bx.psu.edu. Main will be the most reliable server and what we recommend you use, but test has a few beta tools that aren't available on main yet. That said, test.g2.bx.psu.edu is very much for testing and breaking and shouldn't be used without acknowledging that.

2. A local galaxy instance is hosted locally, on your server(s). If you have a local compute cluster or even a single beefy server that you can access and use, this is free, but comes with the caveat that you actually run and administer your own servers, install required tools, etc. A cloud galaxy instance is hosted on Amazon EC2, and comes with most tools and many common indices installed and preconfigured. The downside to this is that it does cost money ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ) to run EC2 instances based on your needs. There's a lot more I can point out if you're interested in running your own galaxy in the cloud, but I would tentatively suggest that you experiment with our main galaxy server at usegalaxy.org, and potentially migrate to a local and/or cloud solution as your analysis needs demand.

Thanks!

Dannon

On Nov 7, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Yan Luo wrote:

> Hi, Nate,
>
> How are you? Last week our director attended a meeting at New York and got some information from you. I just visited your homepage "http://galaxy.psu.edu/" he mentioned. We have some question to "Use Galaxy" and "Get Galaxy". We want to figure out how our PIs at NIH can use them. Do you have any information regarding the 2 above issues? for example, slides, introduction, and links, etc.
>
> 1. Which servers are available for users to use right now? Are they free? Is there any restriction? for example, file size, speed, etc.
>
> 2. Is there any difference between "local version" and "cloud version"? What are they different and benefits?
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>
> Please let me know if you have any suggestion.
>
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Yan