Can someone help me spec out a new computer for using Galaxy? Need to spend money this week!
The tl;dr short story - I've come across about $5,000 I can use to build a machine, and this money has to be spent by Friday. I'd like some help spec'ing out a machine that can be used as a small-scale production Galaxy server for internal use by a handful of folks. Would anyone be willing to talk with me tomorrow morning, Thursday May 3, and tell me about your experience setting up a Galaxy installation on a scale like this? With about $5k to spend, what kind of hardware should I prioritize? I'd also like to get a sense of how much admin time is required to keep things running smoothly, updated, backed up, etc. I've had a difficult time getting ITS to help me get Galaxy running on the university's cluster. This will hopefully be a proof of principal that people here want this - hopefully I can get enough people here using this small-scale installation that the university ITS realizes the demand and has more motivation to get things working on the cluster. Many thanks, Stephen ----------------------------------------- Stephen D. Turner, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Core Director University of Virginia School of Medicine bioinformatics.virginia.edu
My two cents--- $5K won't buy everything you need, but it will get you started. I think at least a 4-core machine with 16GB of RAM should be sufficient for most jobs. If you know you need more, get more RAM. Galaxy is a hog on disk space, so try to maximize disk space. I would set up 2 small disks (or partitions), say 20G, as RAID1 for the OS, and the remaining disks, at least 1-2TB, for Galaxy data as RAID0. I think that configuration will quickly eat your $5K, but will give you something to work with. If you still have money to spare, increase CPUs, RAM, and disks where you can. Oh - One power supply, 1 NIC card, etc, no redundancy...save some money... On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Stephen Turner <vustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
The tl;dr short story - I've come across about $5,000 I can use to build a machine, and this money has to be spent by Friday. I'd like some help spec'ing out a machine that can be used as a small-scale production Galaxy server for internal use by a handful of folks.
Would anyone be willing to talk with me tomorrow morning, Thursday May 3, and tell me about your experience setting up a Galaxy installation on a scale like this? With about $5k to spend, what kind of hardware should I prioritize? I'd also like to get a sense of how much admin time is required to keep things running smoothly, updated, backed up, etc.
I've had a difficult time getting ITS to help me get Galaxy running on the university's cluster. This will hopefully be a proof of principal that people here want this - hopefully I can get enough people here using this small-scale installation that the university ITS realizes the demand and has more motivation to get things working on the cluster.
Many thanks,
Stephen
----------------------------------------- Stephen D. Turner, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Core Director University of Virginia School of Medicine bioinformatics.virginia.edu ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at:
The Dell T710s can be configured pretty well and have 12cpu and if you go with the cheaper hardrives you will be able to get a lot for your money there. Andrew Genome Informatics Facility Office of Biotechnology 3110 Molecular Biology Building Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 (515)-294-1320 On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Ryan Golhar <ngsbioinformatics@gmail.com> wrote:
My two cents---
$5K won't buy everything you need, but it will get you started. I think at least a 4-core machine with 16GB of RAM should be sufficient for most jobs. If you know you need more, get more RAM.
Galaxy is a hog on disk space, so try to maximize disk space. I would set up 2 small disks (or partitions), say 20G, as RAID1 for the OS, and the remaining disks, at least 1-2TB, for Galaxy data as RAID0.
I think that configuration will quickly eat your $5K, but will give you something to work with. If you still have money to spare, increase CPUs, RAM, and disks where you can.
Oh - One power supply, 1 NIC card, etc, no redundancy...save some money...
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Stephen Turner <vustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
The tl;dr short story - I've come across about $5,000 I can use to build a machine, and this money has to be spent by Friday. I'd like some help spec'ing out a machine that can be used as a small-scale production Galaxy server for internal use by a handful of folks.
Would anyone be willing to talk with me tomorrow morning, Thursday May 3, and tell me about your experience setting up a Galaxy installation on a scale like this? With about $5k to spend, what kind of hardware should I prioritize? I'd also like to get a sense of how much admin time is required to keep things running smoothly, updated, backed up, etc.
I've had a difficult time getting ITS to help me get Galaxy running on the university's cluster. This will hopefully be a proof of principal that people here want this - hopefully I can get enough people here using this small-scale installation that the university ITS realizes the demand and has more motivation to get things working on the cluster.
Many thanks,
Stephen
----------------------------------------- Stephen D. Turner, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Core Director University of Virginia School of Medicine bioinformatics.virginia.edu ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at:
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