My Name is Ido Carmel, I am teaching the course titled "Advanced bioinformatics" in the Faculty of Agriculture in the Hebrew University (Israel).

This year (around May), I used the Galaxy platform on the internet in a hands-on session about NGS data analysis. The session took place in one of the University computer classes with six students participating.

 For some reason, the Galaxy response was very very slow. It was slow when the students were signing up and also when the students were practicing very lightweight jobs that usually perform immediately such as "Fastq trimmer" or "fastq summary" statistics.  

Does the slow response was something seasonal or temporal? 

Alternatively, does the response is related to the fact that the students were in one computer room (and possibly all the queries were sent from the same proxy server)?

I am teaching this course next year, do you have any advice/solution for me?

Best Regards,

Ido Carmel

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Ido Carmel, Dr. Yael Heifetz Lab,
Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, POB 12, Rechovot, Israel.
Tel: (+)972-8-9489222