Re: [galaxy-dev] Can Galaxy run on Hadoop system?

2013-02-06 Thread James Taylor
Hi, Because hadoop is a different computing approach, all the underlying tools would need to be written for hadoop as well, so currently Galaxy would not be very useful with only a hadoop cluster as a backend. However work is underway to allow hadoop jobs to be run alongside other jobs from a Gala

[galaxy-dev] Can Galaxy run on Hadoop system?

2013-02-06 Thread lukeyoyo
Hi, I am a computer engineer and have to deploy a cloud computing system, like Hadoop. I want to deploy a local Galaxy system on the Hadoop platform. I know that Galaxy can run on Cloud such as EC2 from Amazon. My question is: can Galaxy run on Hadoop? (Not running within a virtual mechine,