Architect jobs for running analyses

• Documentation: http://jobarchitect.readthedocs.io
• GitHub: https://github.com/JIC-CSB/jobarchitect
• PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jobarchitect
• Free software: MIT License

Overview

This tool is intended to automate generation of scripts to run analysis on data sets. To use it, you will need a data set that has been created (or annotated) with dtool. It aims to help by:

1. Removing the need to know where specific data items are stored in a data set
2. Providing a means to split an analyses into several chunks (file based parallelization)
3. Providing a framework for seamlessly running an analyses inside a container

Design

This project has two main components. The first is a command line tool named sketchjob intended to be used by the end user. It is used to generate scripts defining jobs to be run. The second (_analyse_by_ids) is a command line tool that is used by the scripts generated by sketchjob. The end user is not meant to make use of this second script directly.

Installation

To install the jobarchitect package.

$ cd jobarchitect
$ python setup.py install

Use

The jobarchitect tool only works with "smart" tools. A "smart" tool is a tool that understands dtoolcore datasets, has no positional command line arguments and supports the named arguments --dataset-path, --identifier, --output-directory. The tool should only process the dataset item specified by the identifier and write all output to the specified output directory.

A dtool dataset can be created using dtool. Below is some sample:

$ dtool new dataset
project_name [project_name]:
dataset_name [dataset_name]: example_dataset
...

$ echo "My example data" > example_dataset/data/my_file.txt
$ datatool manifest update example_dataset/

Create an output directory:

$ mkdir output

Then you can generate analysis run scripts with:

$ sketchjob my_smart_tool.py exmaple_dataset output/
#!/bin/bash

_analyse_by_ids \
  --tool_path=my_smart_tool.py \
  --input_dataset_path=example_dataset/ \
  --output_root=output/ \
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Try the script with:

$ sketchjob my_smart_tool.py exmaple_dataset output/ > run.sh
$ bash run.sh
$ cat output/first_image.png
290d3f1a902c452ce1c184ed793b1d6b83b59164  /private/var/folders/hn/crprzwh12kj95plc9jjtxmq82nl2v3/T/tmp_pTfc6/stg02d730c7-17a2-4d06-a017-e59e14cb8885/first_image.png

Use with split

The unix command split is a good way to divide the single large output (that concatenates many command invocations) produced by sketchjob into individual files. For example:

$ split -n 60 many_slurm_scripts.slurm all_slurm_scripts/submit_segment

Working with Docker

Building a Docker image

For the tests to pass, you will need to build an example Docker image, which you do with the provided script:

$ bash build_docker_image.sh

Running code with the Docker backend

By inspecting the script and associcated Docker file, you can get an idea of how to build Docker images that can be used with the jobarchitect Docker backend, e.g:

$ sketchjob scripts/my_smart_tool.py ~/junk/cotyledon_images ~/junk/output --backend=docker --image-name=jicscicomp/jobarchitect
#!/bin/bash

IMAGE_NAME=jicscicomp/jobarchitect
docker run  \
  --rm  \
  -v /Users/olssont/junk/cotyledon_images:/input_dataset:ro  \
  -v /Users/olssont/junk/output:/output  \
  -v /Users/olssont/sandbox/scripts:/scripts:ro \
  $IMAGE_NAME  \
  _analyse_by_ids  \
    --tool_path=/scripts/my_smart_tool.py \
    --input_dataset_path=/input_dataset  \
    --output_root=/output  \
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