Why Use JAWS

• With a simple command, jaws submit, you can submit a workflow. Running pipelines is made easier by conveniently masking the details of how and where the jobs run.

• You can monitor your jobs with simple commands, like jaws log.

• You have access to multiple compute clusters operated by different national labs. For example, to submit to the compute site at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), the command would be jaws submit <wdl> <inputs.json> tahoma, where “tahoma” is the name of the cluster.

• Your workflows are easily scalable. For example, if you have tasks that can be run in parallel, you can select multiple nodes.

Here are some additional benefits to using JAWS.