[galaxy-dev] Creating a new job handler for Galaxy

Hi Galaxy developers,

In our Elixir project (http://www.elixir-europe.org/), Norway, we have five geographically distributed Galaxy instances. Each is working on a local cluster (mostly SLURM). We are planning to interconnect those five clusters using a meta-scheduler ARC (http://www.nordugrid.org/arc/), to achieve load balancing, so that a galaxy job can be reallocated to an external cluster in case that the local cluster is saturated.

ARC manages the interconnection very well. What we need is to create a Galaxy job handler for ARC. Is there a general template or interface for a job handler, i.e. for defining job submission commands ... etc.?

and how to compile and integrate this new job handler and integrate it into the Galaxy installation?

Thank you,

Yours sincerely, Abdulrahman Azab

Head engineer, ELIXIR.NO / The Genomic HyperBrowser team Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Boks 1072 Blindern, NO-0316 OSLO, Norway Email: azab@ifi.uio.no, Cell-phone: +47 46797339 ---- Senior Lecturer in Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering, University of Mansoura, 35516-Mansoura, Egypt Email: abdulrahman.azab@mans.edu.eg/owa/abdulrahman.azab@mans.edu.eg