A newly opened Galaxy platform at Clermont Auvergne University
Nadia Goué, David Grimbichler, Pierre Peyret, Antoine Mahul · 2019
The Mesocentre as part of Clermont Auvergne University (UCA) is delivering services in sciences data computing (HPC, VM, …) and short-term storage through a network of technology core facilities. These offers are done to assist multi-disciplinary scientists in their computing projects. At that time, we are hosting a computer farm with about 800 cores, 40 nodes for moderate memory usage (<256 GB) and a SMP supercomputer made of 384 cores and 12 TB memory in addition to a CEPH storage of at least 1 TB capacity by user, with a total of 1.2 PB. Hosted by the Mesocentre, the AuBi (Auvergne bioinformatics) platform is a member of IFB (French Bioinformatics Institute, https://www.france-bioinformatique.fr/). AuBi platform aims at sharing expertises and knowledge in large-scale data treatments and analysis by supplying a complete computing environment with hardware and software infrastructures for initially 9 UCA research laboratories. To fit this goal, a Galaxy server was installed as a facilitator for a computing access to non-bioinformatician biologists. As AuBi platform is involved in various projects, tools related to genomics, metagenomics and transcriptomics were installed to the Galaxy instance as well as homemade tools from a local toolshed. To an informatics infrastructure point of view, our Galaxy server is installed behind a reverse proxy galaxy.mesocentre.uca.fr on a RBD system connected to the HPC facilities with a NFS server to empower computing and storage capabilities. It’s sharing the LDAP to authenticate users on the cluster and on Galaxy. In addition, we get use of BioMaJ 1 for sharing databanks access to both cluster and Galaxy. In the future, we expect the users from the IFB community to connect via eduGAIN.