Episode 24: Nextflow runtime updates - Requesting resources
Today in the Channels podcast, we're talking about computing resources... Ben Sherman takes us through new and upcoming runtime improvements in the Nextflow, leading to better performance fine tuning and simpler syntax for pipelines.
We cover:
Fractional CPU requests
`resourceLimits` directive (to replace `check_max`)
Virtual threads in Groovy
WebAssembly runtime (a lightweight alternative to containers)