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Ward Vandewege, 11/06/2017 07:44 PM

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h1. Crunch - container orchestration
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Arvados has a robust container orchestration system called 'Crunch', which executes CWL workflows while maintaining provenance and reproducibility. 
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h2. Design Goals
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Notable design goals and features include:
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* Make use of multiple cores and nodes to produce results faster
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* Integrate with [[Keep]] and git repositories to maintain provenance
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* Use off-the-shelf software tools in distributed computations
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* Efficient over a wide range of problem sizes
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* Maximum flexibility of programming language choice
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* Maximum flexibility of execution environment
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* Tools for building reusable pipelines
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* Lower entry barrier for users
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h2. Benefits of Crunch
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Although some of the workflow and provenance features in Arvados could theoretically be implemented using Hadoop MapReduce, there are distinct benefits to Crunch:
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* *Provenance and Reproducibility* - Like Keep, the Arvados distributed file system, Crunch is designed to automate tracking the origin of result data, reproducing complex pipelines, and comparing pipelines to one another.
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* *Performance* - Most genomics problems are embarrassingly parallel and can benefit from horizontal scaling. In the cloud, Crunch can deliver cost-effective performance for genomics related analyses by automatically adjusting the available compute resources to the workload.
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* *Standardization* - "Common Workflow Language (CWL)":http://commonwl.org is the workflow description standard in bioinformatics. It is the native workflow language in Crunch.