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+// copied from 'common/nextflow_helpers/labels_tw.config', but the queues in the gpu labels have been updated
+
+def exitStrat(task, max_attempts = 3) {
+  println "Determining exit strategy for task (attempt '${task.attempt}', exit status '${task.exitStatus}')"
+
+  // if the component failed 3 times, ignore the error so the workflow can continue
+  // it's important 'ignore' is returned even if maxRetries is set to 3,
+  // otherwise the workflow will stop
+  if (task.attempt >= 3) {
+    return 'ignore'
+  }
+  // when an aws spot instance is reclaimed, nextflow seems to use exit code 2147483647
+  // throwing in some extra conditions just in case
+  if (task.exitStatus == null || task.exitStatus <= -1 || task.exitStatus > 2100000000 || !(task.exitStatus.toString().isNumber())) {
+    return 'retry'
+  }
+  // if component failed, retry once
+  if (task.exitStatus == 1 && task.attempt < 2) {
+    return 'retry'
+  }
+  // if component ran out of memory, retry with more memory and disk
+  if (task.exitStatus in [137, 139] && task.attempt < max_attempts) {
+    return 'retry'
+  }
+  // return 'ignore' for all other cases to ignore the error,
+  // otherwise the workflow will stop
+  return 'ignore'
+}
+
+aws {
+  batch {
+    maxTransferAttempts = 3
+    delayBetweenAttempts = '5 sec'
+    maxSpotAttempts = 8
+  }
+}
+
+process {
+  executor = 'awsbatch'
+
+  // Default disk space
+  disk = 50.GB
+
+  // Retry for exit codes that have something to do with memory issues
+  // always retry once
+  errorStrategy = { exitStrat(task) }
+  maxRetries = 3
+  maxMemory = null
+
+  // Resource labels
+  withLabel: lowcpu { cpus = 5 }
+  withLabel: midcpu { cpus = 15 }
+  withLabel: highcpu { cpus = 30 }
+  withLabel: lowmem {
+    memory = { get_memory( 20.GB * task.attempt ) }
+    disk = { 50.GB * task.attempt }
+  }
+  withLabel: midmem {
+    memory = { get_memory( 50.GB * task.attempt ) }
+    disk = { 100.GB * task.attempt }
+  }
+  withLabel: highmem {
+    memory = { get_memory( 100.GB * task.attempt ) }
+    disk = { 200.GB * task.attempt }
+  }
+  withLabel: veryhighmem {
+    memory = { get_memory( 200.GB * task.attempt ) }
+    disk = { 400.GB * task.attempt }
+  }
+  withLabel: lowsharedmem {
+    containerOptions = { workflow.containerEngine != 'singularity' ? "--shm-size ${String.format("%.0f",task.memory.mega * 0.05)}" : ""}
+  }
+  withLabel: midsharedmem {
+    containerOptions = { workflow.containerEngine != 'singularity' ? "--shm-size ${String.format("%.0f",task.memory.mega * 0.1)}" : ""}
+  }
+  withLabel: highsharedmem {
+    containerOptions = { workflow.containerEngine != 'singularity' ? "--shm-size ${String.format("%.0f",task.memory.mega * 0.25)}" : ""}
+  }
+  withLabel: gpu {
+    // assuming g6.8xlarge
+    cpus = 32
+    accelerator = 1
+    memory = 100.GB
+    queue = "TowerForge-9YTjlzYCo5nGhuhJw2daF-work"
+    containerOptions = { workflow.containerEngine == "singularity" ? '--nv':
+       ( workflow.containerEngine == "docker" ? '--gpus all': null ) }
+  }
+  withLabel: midgpu {
+    // assuming g6.8xlarge
+    cpus = 32
+    accelerator = 4
+    memory = 100.GB
+    queue = "TowerForge-9YTjlzYCo5nGhuhJw2daF-work"
+    containerOptions = { workflow.containerEngine == "singularity" ? '--nv':
+       ( workflow.containerEngine == "docker" ? '--gpus all': null ) }
+  }
+  withLabel: highgpu {
+    // assuming g6.16xlarge
+    cpus = 64
+    accelerator = 8
+    memory = 200.GB
+    queue = "TowerForge-9YTjlzYCo5nGhuhJw2daF-work"
+    containerOptions = { workflow.containerEngine == "singularity" ? '--nv':
+       ( workflow.containerEngine == "docker" ? '--gpus all': null ) }
+  }
+  withLabel: biggpu {
+    // assuming p5.4xlarge
+    cpus = 16
+    accelerator = 1
+    memory = 200.GB
+    queue = "TowerForge-...-work"
+    containerOptions = { workflow.containerEngine == "singularity" ? '--nv':
+       ( workflow.containerEngine == "docker" ? '--gpus all': null ) }
+  }
+
+  // make sure publishstates gets enough disk space and memory
+  withName:'.*publishStatesProc' {
+    memory = '16GB'
+    disk = '100GB'
+  }
+}
+
+def get_memory(to_compare) {
+  if (!process.containsKey("maxMemory") || !process.maxMemory) {
+    return to_compare
+  }
+
+  try {
+    if (process.containsKey("maxRetries") && process.maxRetries && task.attempt == (process.maxRetries as int)) {
+      return process.maxMemory
+    }
+    else if (to_compare.compareTo(process.maxMemory as nextflow.util.MemoryUnit) == 1) {
+      return max_memory as nextflow.util.MemoryUnit
+    }
+    else {
+      return to_compare
+    }
+  } catch (all) {
+        println "Error processing memory resources. Please check that process.maxMemory '${process.maxMemory}' and process.maxRetries '${process.maxRetries}' are valid!"
+        System.exit(1)
+  }
+}
+
+// set tracing file
+trace {
+    enabled = true
+    overwrite = true
+    file = "${params.publish_dir}/trace.txt"
+}
+
+aws.batch.maxSpotAttempts = 5
+google.batch.maxSpotAttempts = 5