What are some good open source projects that would fit the bill?
On 7/23/09, Jack Shultz <[email protected]> wrote: > I think thats probably what makes most sense. Where there is an open source > solution for workflow management, finding a way to extend them to BOINC > would fill in that missing link to compete with "The Grid World" > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:18 PM, David Anderson > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The Grid world (which until recently had too much time and money on its >> hands) >> has developed various graphical "workflow management systems", >> that provide a GUI for building big graphs of interconnected >> applications. >> With a few clicks you can submit zillions of jobs, >> with dependencies (e.g., the outputs of jobs A and B are the inputs to >> C). >> >> Condor provides a mechanism (DAGMan) for defining dependencies, >> but without the GUI. >> >> BOINC's interfaces for submitting and handling jobs are lower level than >> these. >> You need to write code (a work generator and assimilator) to do anything, >> and if you have dependencies you need to implement the logic yourself >> (i.e., your assimilator would notice that both A and B are done, and >> submit >> C). >> >> The right approach here is not to develop workflow tools for BOINC, >> but to extend existing tools so that they can use BOINC as a back end >> (in addition to Condor, Globus etc.) >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >> To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >> (near bottom of page) enter your email address. >> > > > > -- > Jack > > http://drugdiscoveryathome.com > http://hydrogenathome.org > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
