Defining a housemade resource

[AlixSil]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a specific problem and I'm checking to see whether Nextflow might be a good tool for answering it.

The idea, is that I need to launch a bunch of job, sharing a specific ressource that is not CPU, GPU or memory (let's call it box), but not all jobs can run at the same time, or I might run out of boxes.

So I was thinking, would it be possible to use directives and LimitRessources or something similar to define the number of box each process take, and stay below this threshold ?

Thanks in advance !

[bentsherman]

Related: #5917

Could be interesting to enable this for both local and AWS Batch using the resourceLimits directive and a new directive e.g. resources