Publications by authors named "Alexandru Mahmoud"

Motivation: The Galaxy application is a popular open-source framework for data intensive sciences, counting thousands of monthly users across more than 100 public servers. To support a growing number of users and a greater variety of use cases, the complexity of a production-grade Galaxy installation has also grown, requiring more administration effort. There is a need for a rapid and reproducible Galaxy deployment method that can be maintained at high-availability with minimal maintenance.

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Summary: The existence of more than 100 public Galaxy servers with service quotas is indicative of the need for an increased availability of compute resources for Galaxy to use. The GalaxyCloudRunner enables a Galaxy server to easily expand its available compute capacity by sending user jobs to cloud resources. User jobs are routed to the acquired resources based on a set of configurable rules and the resources can be dynamically acquired from any of four popular cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP or OpenStack) in an automated fashion.

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