New IT blogpost added #2121

tuncK · 2023-08-15T12:51:01Z

Upon Sanjay's suggestion, I tried to write a new blogpost about interactive tools.

sanjaysrikakulam · 2023-08-15T13:47:28Z

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+For a non-interactive tool execution, the user defines all inputs before the job execution and has access to the results after the job finishes. During the execution phase of the job, the user does not and cannot interact with the system. For majority of the scientific software, this model is actually sufficient, because they are commandline-only, the computation follows a pre-written recipe in the script and a user input during the computation is not needed at all.
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Not getting rendered in the markdown. Have a look.

It gets rendered on my side. If you meant something else, please give more details.

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sanjaysrikakulam · 2023-08-15T14:06:59Z

content/blog/2023-08-15-ITs/index.md

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+## Updates from usegalaxy.eu
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+Within the four-year time window between September 2019 and August 2023, our public instance, [live.usegalaxy.eu](https://live.usegalaxy.eu), already had served 21 801 IT jobs executions. A coarse look into the job statistics suggests that the typical availability of the system was not very different than that of a user-owned local system. Thanks to the availability of VMs dedicated to IT executions in our cloud, users usually did not need to wait more than 30s after realising their need and spinning up an IT instance. This excludes the technical issues that we experienced in the recent past and now resolved, which meant we were unable to provide the resources within a few days.


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Within the four-year time window between September 2019 and August 2023, our public instance, [live.usegalaxy.eu](https://live.usegalaxy.eu), already had served 21 801 IT jobs executions. A coarse look into the job statistics suggests that the typical availability of the system was not very different than that of a user-owned local system. Thanks to the availability of VMs dedicated to IT executions in our cloud, users usually did not need to wait more than 30s after realising their need and spinning up an IT instance. This excludes the technical issues that we experienced in the recent past and now resolved, which meant we were unable to provide the resources within a few days.

Within the four-year time window between September 2019 and August 2023, our public instance, [live.usegalaxy.eu](https://live.usegalaxy.eu), already had served 21801 IT jobs executions. A coarse look into the job statistics suggests that the typical availability of the system was not very different than that of a user-owned local system. Thanks to the availability of compute resources dedicated to IT executions in our cloud, users usually did not need to wait more than 30s after realising their need and spinning up an IT instance.

I removed this This excludes the technical issues that we experienced in the recent past and now resolved, which meant we were unable to provide the resources within a few days because technical glitches and issues come and go.

As I expressed during our conversation before, unless @bgruening overrules:

I want to keep the rightmost column in the graph (and a short argument explaining it to the attentive readers). Without backing with some orthogonal data, I think the outliers are part of a distribution. Transient glitches are part of our imperfect service quality. It functions pretty good nowadays, just that it did cause to some users at some point.

Updated the figure and explanation.

sanjaysrikakulam · 2023-08-15T14:16:56Z

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+## What are interactive tools (IT)?
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+For a non-interactive tool execution, the user defines all inputs before the job execution and has access to the results after the job finishes. During the execution phase of the job, the user does not and cannot interact with the system. For majority of the scientific software, this model is actually sufficient, because they are commandline-only, the computation follows a pre-written recipe in the script and a user input during the computation is not needed at all.


I am not sure this constitutes the only role of ITs. This is just an extra option/luxury that the users get.

For me IT's or VREs are more like the below:

ITs or VREs (Virtual research environments) provide researchers with digital spaces to conduct experiments, analyze data, and collaborate seamlessly. VREs such as Jupyter Notebook and Rstudio empower users with interactive coding environments, enabling real-time manipulation of code, visualizations, and data analysis and fostering iterative exploration. Thus, enhancing efficiency and reproducibility within these dynamic research landscapes.

Thanks. I blended this into the text, after a small adjustment to define VREs as a subset of ITs.

sanjaysrikakulam · 2023-08-15T14:18:13Z

I think it should be a news item. You might have to move it from blog to news.

Co-authored-by: Sanjay Kumar Srikakulam <[email protected]>

tuncK · 2023-08-15T14:39:00Z

I think it should be a news item. You might have to move it from blog to news.

Moved as you suggested.

Co-authored-by: Sanjay Kumar Srikakulam <[email protected]>

tuncK · 2023-09-15T14:29:06Z

Hi @sanjaysrikakulam, as we discussed on Tuesday, I added sectioning, changed a few wordings and added the "steps to launch an IT" section as I mentioned. Any other issues that you notice?

sanjaysrikakulam

It looks great after the last changes. Thank you!

bgruening

Thanks @tuncK

* IT blogpost added * fixed broken link * Update content/blog/2023-08-15-ITs/index.md Co-authored-by: Sanjay Kumar Srikakulam <[email protected]> * Update content/blog/2023-08-15-ITs/index.md Co-authored-by: Sanjay Kumar Srikakulam <[email protected]> * comments addressed * relocate to news * polished explanation regarding >200swaiting time * sectioning and 4 step launch added * fix broken URL --------- Co-authored-by: Sanjay Kumar Srikakulam <[email protected]>

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		For a non-interactive tool execution, the user defines all inputs before the job execution and has access to the results after the job finishes. During the execution phase of the job, the user does not and cannot interact with the system. For majority of the scientific software, this model is actually sufficient, because they are commandline-only, the computation follows a pre-written recipe in the script and a user input during the computation is not needed at all.

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		## Updates from usegalaxy.eu

		Within the four-year time window between September 2019 and August 2023, our public instance, [live.usegalaxy.eu](https://live.usegalaxy.eu), already had served 21 801 IT jobs executions. A coarse look into the job statistics suggests that the typical availability of the system was not very different than that of a user-owned local system. Thanks to the availability of VMs dedicated to IT executions in our cloud, users usually did not need to wait more than 30s after realising their need and spinning up an IT instance. This excludes the technical issues that we experienced in the recent past and now resolved, which meant we were unable to provide the resources within a few days.


		## What are interactive tools (IT)?

		For a non-interactive tool execution, the user defines all inputs before the job execution and has access to the results after the job finishes. During the execution phase of the job, the user does not and cannot interact with the system. For majority of the scientific software, this model is actually sufficient, because they are commandline-only, the computation follows a pre-written recipe in the script and a user input during the computation is not needed at all.

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