Re: [galaxy-dev] datatype for executables

2014-01-29 Thread Ketan Maheshwari
Thanks for your answer. Yes, the idea is to have runnable executables such as executable binaries and shell scripts to run via a parallelizing tool Swift. As for security, current plan is to run Swift enabled Galaxy tools in controlled cloud instances, which we are already doing. With this

Re: [galaxy-dev] datatype for executables

2014-01-28 Thread Peter Cock
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, Ketan Maheshwari ketancmaheshw...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a data type in Galaxy that identifies executables uniquely, eg. from the executable bit in the file perms or some other way? Thanks, Galaxy's data types are for data files - runnable tools/executables

Re: [galaxy-dev] datatype for executables

2014-01-28 Thread Peter Cock
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Ketan Maheshwari ke...@mcs.anl.gov wrote: Is it possible to write a type file bin_or_exe which can detect the executable bit of data before they are part of Galaxy's indexed data. Thanks, Ketan You haven't convinced me this is a good idea, but I would try

Re: [galaxy-dev] datatype for executables

2014-01-28 Thread Ketan Maheshwari
Hi Peter, Thanks for the advice. I was trying to say that the potential users for this case will run the tool on: 1. cloud instances that they own 2. PBS/Torque/SLURM interfaced HPC resources which they will have authenticated access to. This means that say in the worse case if some one chooses