The Common Workflow Language is a multi-vendor open standard for describing analysis tools and workflows that are portable across a variety of platforms. CWL is the primary way to develop and run workflows for Arvados. Arvados supports versions v1.0 and v1.1 of the CWL specification.
This tutorial assumes that you are logged into an Arvados VM instance (instructions for Webshell or Unix or Windows) or you have installed the Arvados FUSE Driver and Python SDK on your workstation and have a working environment.
By default, the arvados-cwl-runner is installed on Arvados shell nodes. If you want to submit jobs from somewhere else, such as your workstation, you may install arvados-cwl-runner.
This tutorial will demonstrate how to submit a workflow at the command line using arvados-cwl-runner.
The tutorial files are located in the documentation section of the Arvados source repository:
~$ git clone https://github.com/arvados/arvados
~$ cd arvados/doc/user/cwl/bwa-mem
The tutorial data is hosted on https://playground.arvados.org (also referred to by the identifier qr1hi). If you are using a different Arvados instance, you may need to copy the data to your own instance. The easiest way to do this is with arv-copy (this requires signing up for a free playground.arvados.org account).
~$ arv-copy --src qr1hi --dst settings 2463fa9efeb75e099685528b3b9071e0+438
~$ arv-copy --src qr1hi --dst settings ae480c5099b81e17267b7445e35b4bc7+180
~$ arv-copy --src qr1hi --dst settings 655c6cd07550151b210961ed1d3852cf+57
If you do not wish to create an account on https://playground.arvados.org, you may download the files anonymously and upload them to your local Arvados instance:
https://playground.arvados.org/collections/2463fa9efeb75e099685528b3b9071e0+438
https://playground.arvados.org/collections/ae480c5099b81e17267b7445e35b4bc7+180
https://playground.arvados.org/collections/655c6cd07550151b210961ed1d3852cf+57
Use arvados-cwl-runner to submit CWL workflows to Arvados. After submitting the job, it will wait for the workflow to complete and print out the final result to standard output.
Note: Once submitted, the workflow runs entirely on Arvados, so even if you log out, the workflow will continue to run. However, if you interrupt arvados-cwl-runner with control-C it will cancel the workflow.
~/arvados/doc/user/cwl/bwa-mem$ arvados-cwl-runner bwa-mem.cwl bwa-mem-input.yml
arvados-cwl-runner 1.0.20160628195002, arvados-python-client 0.1.20160616015107, cwltool 1.0.20160629140624
2016-06-30 14:56:36 arvados.arv-run[27002] INFO: Upload local files: "bwa-mem.cwl"
2016-06-30 14:56:36 arvados.arv-run[27002] INFO: Uploaded to qr1hi-4zz18-h7ljh5u76760ww2
2016-06-30 14:56:40 arvados.cwl-runner[27002] INFO: Submitted job qr1hi-8i9sb-fm2n3b1w0l6bskg
2016-06-30 14:56:41 arvados.cwl-runner[27002] INFO: Job bwa-mem.cwl (qr1hi-8i9sb-fm2n3b1w0l6bskg) is Running
2016-06-30 14:57:12 arvados.cwl-runner[27002] INFO: Job bwa-mem.cwl (qr1hi-8i9sb-fm2n3b1w0l6bskg) is Complete
2016-06-30 14:57:12 arvados.cwl-runner[27002] INFO: Overall process status is success
{
"aligned_sam": {
"location": "keep:54325254b226664960de07b3b9482349+154/HWI-ST1027_129_D0THKACXX.1_1.sam",
"checksum": "sha1$0dc46a3126d0b5d4ce213b5f0e86e2d05a54755a",
"class": "File",
"size": 30738986
}
}
When running a workflow on an Arvados cluster, the input files must be stored in Keep. There are several ways this can happen.
A URI reference to Keep uses the keep: scheme followed by either the portable data hash or UUID of the collection and then the location of the file inside the collection. For example, keep:2463fa9efeb75e099685528b3b9071e0+438/19.fasta.bwt or keep:zzzzz-4zz18-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz/19.fasta.bwt.
If you reference a file in arv-mount, such as /home/example/keep/by_id/2463fa9efeb75e099685528b3b9071e0+438/19.fasta.bwt, then arvados-cwl-runner will automatically determine the appropriate Keep URI reference.
If you reference a local file which is not in arv-mount, then arvados-cwl-runner will upload the file to Keep and use the Keep URI reference from the upload.
You can also execute CWL files directly from Keep:
~/arvados/doc/user/cwl/bwa-mem$ arvados-cwl-runner keep:655c6cd07550151b210961ed1d3852cf+57/bwa-mem.cwl bwa-mem-input.yml
arvados-cwl-runner 1.0.20160628195002, arvados-python-client 0.1.20160616015107, cwltool 1.0.20160629140624
2016-06-30 14:56:36 arvados.arv-run[27002] INFO: Uploaded to qr1hi-4zz18-h7ljh5u76760ww2
2016-06-30 14:56:40 arvados.cwl-runner[27002] INFO: Submitted job qr1hi-8i9sb-fm2n3b1w0l6bskg
2016-06-30 14:56:41 arvados.cwl-runner[27002] INFO: Job bwa-mem.cwl (qr1hi-8i9sb-fm2n3b1w0l6bskg) is Running
2016-06-30 14:57:12 arvados.cwl-runner[27002] INFO: Job bwa-mem.cwl (qr1hi-8i9sb-fm2n3b1w0l6bskg) is Complete
2016-06-30 14:57:12 arvados.cwl-runner[27002] INFO: Overall process status is success
{
"aligned_sam": {
"location": "keep:54325254b226664960de07b3b9482349+154/HWI-ST1027_129_D0THKACXX.1_1.sam",
"checksum": "sha1$0dc46a3126d0b5d4ce213b5f0e86e2d05a54755a",
"class": "File",
"size": 30738986
}
}
Workflows submitted with arvados-cwl-runner will take advantage of Arvados job reuse. If you submit a workflow which is identical to one that has run before, it will short cut the execution and return the result of the previous run. This also applies to individual workflow steps. For example, a two step workflow where the first step has run before will reuse results for first step and only execute the new second step. You can disable this behavior with --disable-reuse.
By default, the arvados-cwl-runner is installed on Arvados shell nodes. If you want to submit jobs from somewhere else, such as your workstation, you may install arvados-cwl-runner using pip:
~$ virtualenv ~/venv
~$ . ~/venv/bin/activate
~$ pip install -U setuptools
~$ pip install arvados-cwl-runner
In order to pull and upload Docker images, arvados-cwl-runner requires access to Docker. You do not need Docker if the Docker images you intend to use are already available in Arvados.
You can determine if you have access to Docker by running docker version:
~$ docker version
Client:
Version: 1.9.1
API version: 1.21
Go version: go1.4.2
Git commit: a34a1d5
Built: Fri Nov 20 12:59:02 UTC 2015
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Server:
Version: 1.9.1
API version: 1.21
Go version: go1.4.2
Git commit: a34a1d5
Built: Fri Nov 20 12:59:02 UTC 2015
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
If this returns an error, contact the sysadmin of your cluster for assistance.
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