Galaxy Test Instance

The Galaxy Test instance is available at https://test.galaxyproject.org/. Test is the Beta site for the Galaxy Main instance. Main is the primary free public Galaxy instance. Test is also free and public, and is a testbed where tools and framework functions are functionally and experimentally reviewed.

Test changes frequently and we don't actually guarantee things will work or that data/histories/workflows/visualizations will be persistent (even when saved in an account). Some new tools on Test will eventually be promoted to Main, but others will not. Backwards and forwards compatibility of data and tools on Test with data and tools on Main, in a Distribution, or from the Tool Shed should not be expected.

If you get an error on Test, there are many possible reasons for it. You might try running again, to make sure that some other change on test didn't interfere (updates occur frequently). If you do find out what went wrong (a specific bug in the tool wrapper/config) please do let us know.

Information about Test

The Learn pages include information on how to use Test, Main, and most other Galaxy instances. Also see:

• Datasets
• Disk Quotas

See Choices for more on other choices for using and running Galaxy.

Job resubmission to Stampede

Certain tools will be automatically "resubmitted" to Stampede (see Job execution on Stampede for more about Stampede) if they initially run on Galaxy's local cluster but exceed the walltime (run time limit). The walltime differs per tool and is calculated based on previous average runtimes of that tool:

When a job is resubmitted you will see its state turn from running (yellow) back to gray (queued) and a blue message box will appear when the dataset is expanded explaining that the job has been resubmitted.

Our goal with the Stampede resubmission system is to provide a balance to Galaxy users: to allow those with relatively small jobs to run them quickly without a wait, but still be able to support larger scale analyses with a reasonable wait but higher job concurrency limits. See the User data and job quotas section below for more on concurrency limits.

If you know (due to previous runs of the tool using similar inputs and parameters) that your job will reach the walltime on the local cluster, you should directly submit it to Stampede to avoid the time wasted running to walltime on the Galaxy cluster.

Direct job execution on Stampede

Tools in the previous section can also be manually submitted directly to Stampede. This is a good idea if you know (or strongly suspect) that a tool will exceed the walltime on the local cluster. On the form for these tools, a Job Resource Parameters parameter is available that, if selected, will display a Compute Resources selection parameter. The options for this parameter are:

Beta: De novo assembly on Blacklight

Trinity and SPAdes can be run on the Blacklight supercomputer at PSC via Galaxy Test.

As with tools that run on Stampede, on the form for these tools, a Job Resource Parameters parameter is available that, if selected, will display a Compute Resources selection parameter. The options for this parameter are:

User data and job quotas

Some tools or job destinations have stricter job concurrency limits than the overall limits above. These tools include all of the tools that can be run on Stampede (listed above), and some additional tools. These limits are:

"Increased memory tools" refers to a set of tools that are granted additional memory over the 8 GB default.

Monitoring data use

Exceeding quotas will prevent new jobs from running, but Galaxy users can monitor and manage datasets in several ways:

1. Percent of quota limit used by a user account is noted in the top right corner of the Galaxy interface within a bar icon.
2. Exact total user data size and quota limit is noted on the page: User → Preferences (top menu bar).
3. Size of individual histories is listed on the page: Options → Saved Histories (left history pane's menu).
4. Size of individual datasets can be found within a dataset's expanded box either written directly under the dataset's name and/or by viewing the dataset's Details (click on View Details icon ).

Test server user interface:

User Account Quotas

How will I know if my quota has been exceeded?

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