Hi Yarosalav,

Yes I can access your proposal and I signed up to mentor this project. No 
changes are required as of now. Will contact you for a skype chat within the 
next week to discuss your execution plans and commitment. Meanwhile if you have 
any questions ask them on this list.  

Suresh

On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Yaroslav Porshnev wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I submitted my proposal on this project and I hope you can see and
> access it. To avoid any server side problems with last minute
> submission I will not make any change to it from now on. But in the
> proposal I included link to Google Doc with its description which I
> will be able to change and clarify even after the deadline.
> 
> I would appreciate any comments and recommendations.
> 
> Best regards,
> Yaroslav Porshnev.
> 
> 2012/4/6 Suresh Marru <sma...@apache.org>:
>> Hi Yaroslav,
>> 
>> Sure I understand, will get you the definition but you may not have enough 
>> time to consume it. There is a PhD thesis by Sathoshi Shirusuna discussing 
>> about the higher level workflow description and how u can translate to 
>> enactment languages. Most universities provide free access to thesis, see if 
>> you can download a copy using your university id - 
>> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1368931 
>> http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?Ver=1&Exp=04-05-2017&FMT=7&DID=1407508901&RQT=309&attempt=1
>> 
>> If you cannot download it, email me at smarru at apache.org and I will send 
>> you a copy.
>> 
>> The higher level workflow abstraction Satoshi discusses in his thesis is the 
>> XWF.
>> 
>> Suresh
>> 
>> On Apr 6, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Yaroslav Porshnev wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello.
>>> 
>>> Yes, I am planning to submit the proposal and currently I am working on it.
>>> It would be great if you give me information about XWF format. Also
>>> are there any more detailed descriptions of XMF format compilers and
>>> usage of messaging system? For now I can only explore source code and
>>> I will definitely do it lately during development, but now for better
>>> general understanding of the system internals and preparation of the
>>> proposal such documentation could be very helpful.
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>>> 2012/4/6 Suresh Marru (Commented) (JIRA) <j...@apache.org>:
>>>> 
>>>>    [ 
>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-340?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13248025#comment-13248025
>>>>  ]
>>>> 
>>>> Suresh Marru commented on AIRAVATA-340:
>>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Yaroslav,
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for the late reply. You got the requirement very correctly. As you 
>>>> already figured it out, there are two tasks for this project, first one is 
>>>> a Airavata XWF format to SWF compiler. Airavata has already XWF to BPEL, 
>>>> XWF to python (jython) compilers. So you can look into implementing XSF 
>>>> compilers. Second challenge is the monitoring progress. Airavata workflow 
>>>> monitoring schema is reasonably well defined and the WS Messenger client 
>>>> publish and subscribe API's have good examples bundled with. You should be 
>>>> able to easily figure out Amazon SWF monitoring information and translate 
>>>> into to equivalent Airavata messages.
>>>> 
>>>> If it helps, we can provide a definition for the Airavata workflow format 
>>>> XWF. Also, this project has elastic goals which could be easily extended 
>>>> if you accomplish your goals early.
>>>> 
>>>> Are you planning to submit a proposal on this task? Do you have any 
>>>> further questions?
>>>> 
>>>>> [GSoC] Airavata Workflow Enactment to support Amazon Simple Workflow 
>>>>> Service
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>>                 Key: AIRAVATA-340
>>>>>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-340
>>>>>             Project: Airavata
>>>>>          Issue Type: New Feature
>>>>>          Components: XBaya
>>>>>    Affects Versions: 0.4-INCUBATING
>>>>>            Reporter: Suresh Marru
>>>>>            Priority: Minor
>>>>>              Labels: gsoc2012, mentor
>>>>> 
>>>>> Airavata's GFac enables users to wrap as web services and then use XBaya 
>>>>> to drag and drop those components to a workspace and define data flow and 
>>>>> control flow dependencies among the application nodes. Airavata's 
>>>>> workflow system is used for composing, executing, and monitoring workflow 
>>>>> graphs of web service components. The workflow description is high level 
>>>>> abstraction and is converted to lower level execution run times like 
>>>>> BPEL, SCUFL and Python scripts.
>>>>> Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) is a newly launched workflow 
>>>>> service from Amazon. This service is of interest to Airavata user 
>>>>> community to execute coupled applications on Amazon cloud computational 
>>>>> resources.
>>>>> Extend Airavata workflow execution to support Amazon SWF will enhance the 
>>>>> capabilities provided by Airavata. The airavata developer community will 
>>>>> provide detailed guidance and assistance.
>>>>> There is extensive literature about Airavata WS Messenger including 4 
>>>>> research papers. The Airavata community will provide guidance and 
>>>>> assistance with the project.
>>>>> User community & Impact of the software: Airavata is primarily targeted 
>>>>> to build science gateways using computational resources from various 
>>>>> disciplines. The initial targeted set of gateways include projects 
>>>>> supporting research and education in chemistry, life sciences, 
>>>>> biophysics, environmental sciences, geosciences astronomy and nuclear 
>>>>> physics. The goal of airavata is to enhance productivity of these 
>>>>> gateways to utilize cyberinfrastructure of resources (e.g., local lab 
>>>>> resources, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment 
>>>>> (XSEDE), the Open Science Grid (OSG), University Clusters, Academic and 
>>>>> Commercial Computational Clouds like FutureGrid & Amazon EC2). By using 
>>>>> open community based software components and services like Airavata, 
>>>>> gateways will be able to focus on providing additional scientific 
>>>>> capabilities and to expanding the number of supported users. The 
>>>>> capabilities of these gateways will offer clear benefits to society.
>>>> 
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