nf-core/configs: eddie
University of Edinburgh (eddie) cluster profile provided by nf-core/configs.
Eddie Configuration
nf-core pipelines sarek, rnaseq, atacseq, and viralrecon have all been tested on the University of Edinburgh Eddie HPC. All except atacseq have pipeline-specific config files; atacseq does not yet support this.
Getting help
There is a Slack channel dedicated to eddie users on the MRC IGC Slack: https://igmm.slack.com/channels/eddie3
Using the Eddie config profile
To use, run the pipeline with -profile eddie
(one hyphen).
This will download and launch the eddie.config
which has been pre-configured with a setup suitable for the University of Edinburgh Eddie HPC.
The configuration file supports running nf-core pipelines with Docker containers running under Singularity by default. Conda is not currently supported.
Before running the pipeline you will need to install Nextflow or load it from the module system. Generally the most recent version will be the one you want. If you want to run a Nextflow pipeline that is based on DSL2, you will need a version that ends with ‘-edge’.
To list versions:
To load the most recent version:
This config enables Nextflow to manage the pipeline jobs via the SGE job scheduler and using Singularity for software management.
Singularity set-up
Load Singularity from the module system.
The eddie profile is set to use /exports/igmm/eddie/BioinformaticsResources/nfcore/singularity-images
as the Singularity cache directory. If some containers for your pipeline run are not present, please contact the IGC Data Manager to have them added. You can add these lines to the file $HOME/.bashrc
, or you can run these commands before you run an nf-core pipeline.
If you do not have access to /exports/igmm/eddie/BioinformaticsResources
, set the Singularity cache directory to somewhere sensible that is not in your $HOME
area (which has limited space). It will take time to download all the Singularity containers, but you can use this again.
Singularity will by default create a directory .singularity
in your $HOME
directory on eddie. Space on $HOME
is very limited, so it is a good idea to create a directory somewhere else with more room and link the locations.
Running Nextflow
On a login node
You can use a qlogin to run Nextflow, if you request more than the default 2GB of memory. Unfortunately you can’t submit the initial Nextflow run process as a job as you can’t qsub within a qsub.
If your eddie terminal disconnects your Nextflow job will stop. You can run Nextflow as a bash script on the command line using nohup
to prevent this.
On a wild west node - IGC only
Wild west nodes on eddie can be accessed via ssh (node2c15, node2c16, node3g22). To run Nextflow on one of these nodes, do it within a screen session.
Start a new screen session.
List existing screen sessions
Reconnect to an existing screen session
Using iGenomes references
A local copy of the iGenomes resource has been made available on the Eddie HPC for those with access to /exports/igmm/eddie/BioinformaticsResources
so you should be able to run the pipeline against any reference available in the igenomes.config
.
You can do this by simply using the --genome <GENOME_ID>
parameter.
Adjusting maximum resources
This config is set for IGC standard nodes which have 32 cores and 384GB memory. If you are a non-IGC user, please see the ECDF specification and adjust the --clusterOptions
flag appropriately, e.g.