Hi all,
perhaps someone could give me some advice or remarks on the application based on Ptolemy and Vergil I need to develop. 1 - This application will execute bioinformatics workflows designed from a graphical interface (a customized vergil). For a main part the actors are external applications a user can easily add to his workspace without programming (I need to develop an actor which acts as a wrapper). 2 - The workflow must be able to run these applications concurrently : I think of using a customized PN director which executes the workflow only one time. 3 - I need to be able to run several instances of one model. For example after creating a model which analyze DNA sequences, I launch several instances concurrently with different parameters and then compare the results between the instances. 4 - As the external applications can be very long (several days), I would like to be able to a design the workflow, launch ptolemy in background (without graphical interface) and retrieve at any moment the current state from a graphical interface used as a viewer. I have already made a little prototype which launches external applications and displays the state of each. I've tried with a PN director to try the concurrent executions but it seems to do an infinite loop (I'm currently reading the doc and I think my comprehension of behaviours is not perfect yet !) I think the point 4 is the most délicate but I'm rather confident as ptolemy and vergil communicates using event messages. It seems I don't need to break all the architecture ! Do you think my features are "reasonable" ? ;) Sorry if some answers are in the doc, I'm currently reading it too ! Franck ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted to the ptolemy-hackers mailing list. Please send administrative mail for this list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
