Galaxy Europe

galaxyproject.org · Compute · 2 records · JSON

Galaxy Europe Computecaveatemailno cardDvolume-quota
Galaxy Main Computecaveatemailno cardDvolume-quota

Galaxy Europe Compute

caveatemailno cardDvolume-quota

galaxyproject.org/eu/storage/ · cloud VM · compute/galaxy-europe · JSON · compare

Free tier	"On the European Galaxy server every user has a 250 GB quota. This means you can use 250 GB of storage for free." The storage is funded by the de.NBI cloud and the University of Freiburg compute centre, which held 4 PB of user data as of January 2025, and the page states the quota form for extra storage has been discontinued because storage "has become increasingly scarce and expensive". unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-open-registration
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	volume-quota the page states that at the limit no new jobs start. source the page states that at the limit no new jobs start.
Binding	volume-quota the page states that at the limit no new jobs start.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Two independent Galaxy servers give two independent 250 GB quotas, because they are funded by different institutions and share no account system, so the pair composes to 500 GB of free storage for the same one email address and the same tool wrappers.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded separately from Galaxy Main because the operator, the funder and the storage policy differ, and because the withdrawn quota form is a fact that applies only here. The compute behind the EU server is not quantified on the pages read, so vcpu and memory are null rather than copied from the US figures, which are TACC and Jetstream and do not describe this machine.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	galaxyproject.org/eu/storage/	"On the European Galaxy server every user has a 250 GB quota. This means you can use 250 GB of storage for free", quoted
2026-10-22	galaxyproject.org/eu/storage/	"Thanks to the de.NBI cloud and the Uni-Freiburg compute center the European Galaxy server is managing 4PB of data today (2025/01)", quoted
2026-10-22	galaxyproject.org/eu/storage/	"we can no longer increase individual quotas through the quota-request form. The standard 250 GB quota therefore remains available to every user, but the quota-request form for additional storage has been discontinued", quoted
2026-10-22	galaxyproject.org/eu/storage/	"Once you reach this limit you cannot start new jobs", quoted

More fields (1)

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  "class": "open-science-platform",
  "free_tier_kind": "perpetual-open-registration",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (14)

$.binding_note partly-held
$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.limits[0].value partly-held
$.limits_note partly-held
$.notes partly-held
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated

Galaxy Main Compute

caveatemailno cardDvolume-quota

galaxyproject.org/main/ · cloud VM · compute/galaxy-main · JSON · compare

Free tier	"The main Galaxy site at https://usegalaxy.org [...] has been available since 2007 for anyone to analyze their data free of charge." "Anyone can use the public servers, with or without an account" and registration is "email, password, user name and go". A registered account gets 250 GB of storage and 6 concurrent jobs; an unregistered one gets 5 GB and 1 job. The hardware is not Galaxy's own: most jobs take 1 core and 8 GB on the dedicated Galaxy cluster at TACC, multi-core tools take 6 cores and 30 GB there or 10 cores and 30 GB on Jetstream m1.xlarge, and assembly jobs are routed to PSC Bridges (240 GB to 960 GB of memory, 5 to 20 cores, 24 to 96 hours) or TACC Stampede2 SKX (48 cores, 192 GB, 48 hours). unit hours; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-open-registration
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	volume-quota 250 GB of stored data per account is the wall that stops work: reaching it halts new jobs until data is purged, and the 6-concurrent-job cap and the 36 to 48 hour walltime sit behind it. source 250 GB of stored data per account is the wall that stops work: reaching it halts new jobs until data is purged, and the 6-concurrent-job cap and the 36 to 48 hour walltime sit behind it.
Binding	volume-quota 250 GB of stored data per account is the wall that stops work: reaching it halts new jobs until data is purged, and the 6-concurrent-job cap and the 36 to 48 hour walltime sit behind it.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	This is the strongest composition: an email account reaches TACC, Jetstream and PSC Bridges hardware that every other route in this file gates behind a US institutional appointment, and the qualification is that you reach it through Galaxy tool wrappers rather than a shell, so a workload must be expressible as Galaxy tools or a packaged tool in a workflow.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The reachable identity is the point. Every other record fails on institution Galaxy Main, Galaxy Europe and the Australian and African servers each issue an account to an email address, and the server operators are separate institutions carrying separate hardware allocations, so the capacity is genuinely multi-institutional while the identity is one address. Galaxy is not a general-purpose VM: no root, no arbitrary binaries unless uploaded as a tool, no inbound network, so it is the wrong shape for a server and the right shape for a batch analysis. The corpus holds no Galaxy record.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:volume-quota 250.0 GB

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	galaxyproject.org/main/	"this site has been available since 2007 for anyone to analyze their data free of charge"; "Anyone can use the public servers, with or without an account", quoted
2026-10-22	galaxyproject.org/main/	"It is sustained by Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) hardware using allocation generously provided by the CyVerse project", quoted
2026-10-22	galaxyproject.org/main/	quota table: 250GB registered and 5GB unregistered, 6 concurrent jobs registered and 1 unregistered, quoted
2026-10-22	galaxyproject.org/main/	compute resource table: Jetstream 36 hour walltime, 10 cores, 30 GB; TACC Stampede2 SKX 48 hour walltime, 48 cores, 192 GB; PSC Bridges 240 GB to 960 GB and 5 to 20 cores, quoted
2026-10-22	galaxyproject.org/support/account-quotas/	"each registered account is granted 250 GB of quota space" at Galaxy Main, quoted

More fields (1)

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  "class": "open-science-platform",
  "free_tier_kind": "perpetual-open-registration",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": 10,
   "ram_gib": 30,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated