Hello,
Can any applications in Galaxy use GPU hardware (e.g. for processing next gen data)?
Thanks,
Isabelle
PS: From Enis's reply to a post from last year, it looked like the answer was no at the time
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Also, Amazon has so-called "cluster" instances, and now GPU cluster instances. Again, the same idea applies: can specific tools be told to only run on such a cluster instance? Further ahead, could Galaxy be configured to automatically start/stop specific instances only when needed (including cluster instances)?
Because MPI-type jobs are the only true beneficiaries of the cluster instances, but only a handful of bioinformatics software are actually implemented using MPI and because those instances require a different AMI, we do not currently have support for that type of instances - maybe down the line. Nonetheless, in the coming new version Galaxy Cloud (currently being tested), the application will be able to automatically scale the size of the cluster based on the current workload.
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