From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ibpcp-0008He-SA for gwl-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:36:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ibpco-0006ym-Vj for gwl-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:36:43 -0500 Received: from mail-qt1-x835.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::835]:46336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ibpco-0006xZ-Ps for gwl-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:36:42 -0500 Received: by mail-qt1-x835.google.com with SMTP id 38so492190qtb.13 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:36:42 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Josh Marshall Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 12:36:30 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: How do I support building a guix package over multiple machines in a cloud environment? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: gwl-devel-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "gwl-devel" To: gwl-devel@gnu.org Hello all, Simon directed me from help-guix to wake up this list. I have a use case or a colleague to articulate their work as a guix package. I'm still very new, and would like to use this as a learning opportunity. He uses it as a bioinformatics workflow to generate some analysis. It typically runs in 6 threads, 42GB peak memory, 100GB of on disk files, and is currently using nextflow. This seems like a perfect use case to try out doing more with guix/gwl. His workflow is more analogous to software packaging that a dumb software pipeline or even a re-run optimized bioinformatics pipeline. Is this kind of use case supported? If so, how so? Is nextflow not practical to keep? Please, someone catch me up here so I can start to write code to help him out. If this goes well, my company could integrate for gwl/guix in our work, which would be amazing.