I would also recommend [3] and [4] for those of you who are just stepping in.
[3]A. Barker and J. Van Hemert, “Scientific workflow: a survey and research directions,” Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, pp. 746–753, 2008. [4]Y. Gil, E. Deelman, M. Ellisman, T. Fahringer, G. Fox, D. Gannon, C. Goble, M. Livny, L. Moreau, and J. Myers, Report on the 2006 NSF Workshop on Challenges of Scientific Workflows. Citeseer, 2006. Thanks, Danushka On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Pavithra Kulathilaka <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > One of a resource I referred was [1] which covers basic details to start > with workflow engines. > Also they have done a review on existing solutions for workflow > applications and their limitations with respect to scalability and > on-demand access. So I think this would be a great starting point. [1] > refers another research paper [2] (Chris has also mentioned about this) > which presents a detailed survey of existing Grid workflow systems w.r.t > their design, scheduling, information retrieval, fault tolerant and data > movement. > > Regards, > Pavithra. > > [1] S. Pandey, D. Karunamoorthy, and R. Buyya, “Workflow engine for > clouds,” Cloud Computing, > Principles and Paradigms, Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed > Computing, pp. 321–344, 2011. > > [2] A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing, Jia Yu > and Rajkumar Buyya > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Sanjaya Medonsa <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > I agree with Danushka. When it comes to workflow engines I think it is > > better to study general concepts of workflow engines first and then study > > the prominent *Scientific* work flow engines (Some of the challenges are > > different from business workflow engines). Each prominent workflow engine > > comprise of several unique features and concepts while major abstraction > is > > workflows. I would like to add Apache OODT into list of prominent > workflow > > engines (Workflow processing components are key part of Apache OODT and > > used in several NASA missions and other research) . I have already some > > work on these items and would like to contribute them into wiki. > > > > /Sanjaya > > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Danushka Menikkumbura < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I would say, > > > > > > 1. Science Gateways > > > 2. Workflow Engines > > > 3. Data/Compute-Intensive Computing > > > 4. Challenges and Opportunities in Science Gateways > > > 5. Research Directions (Big Data, Provenance, Meta Data) (Maybe relates > > to > > > 4) > > > > > > Danushka > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Shahani Markus Weerawarana < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > HI All, > > > > > > > > There are a few postgraduate research students who have done > > significant > > > > literature reviews on science gateways etc. Maybe it is time to > harness > > > all > > > > this background reading work that has been done individually and list > > the > > > > papers (links) in categories on the Airavata website. > > > > > > > > Danushka, Pavithra, and Sanjaya - what are your thoughts on the > > > categories > > > > based on the work you have already completed? > > > > > > > > Shahani > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:22 PM, AMILA RANATUNGA < > [email protected] > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Thank you for the reply. I am also working in the same project. We > > > looked > > > > > some research papers science gateways. We found some interesting > > facts > > > > > about science gateways in the research paper 'TeraGrid Science > > Gateways > > > > and > > > > > Their Impact on Science' [1] which talks about 4 successful science > > > > > gateways including LEAD. And we got to know that LEAD project has > > > caused > > > > to > > > > > the development of AIRAVATA which is used to build science > gateways. > > > And > > > > > the research paper '*Apache Airavata : A framework for Distributed > > > > > Applications and Computational Workflows*' describes about some > work > > > flow > > > > > systems Taverna, Triana ..etc. > > > > > And it says these are tools to build science gateways. > > > > > And we came to a conclusion that AIRAVATA, Taverna, Triana doing > > > similar > > > > > kind of job (please correct me if I am wrong). And tried to figure > > out > > > > what > > > > > is so unique in AIRAVATA comparing to theses. We would like to have > > > some > > > > > good references if we are moving in the wrong path determining what > > is > > > > > AIRAVATA. We are working full time in this project. Your help is > > really > > > > > appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > Thank You ! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4668681&tag=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D4668681%26tag%3D1 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > HI Harsha, > > > > > > > > > > > > Airavata is a Distributed Computing framework in which Workflow > is > > a > > > > > > component. A good place to start is to do literature study on > > Science > > > > > > Gateways. We will need to compile a set of reference papers to > make > > > it > > > > > easy > > > > > > for you to get an understanding on. You will quickly realize the > > best > > > > way > > > > > > to find out differences in features in open source projects is > > > cracking > > > > > > open the code. So I suggest downloading the code, going through > > > > tutorials > > > > > > and asking questions on the corresponding mailing lists of the > > tools > > > > you > > > > > > are comparing against. You identified a good first list, please > > keep > > > > > > sharing your learnings so future users/students like you will > > benefit > > > > > from > > > > > > your contributions. > > > > > > > > > > > > Suresh > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 11, 2013, at 5:41 AM, Harsha Kumara <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > > We are doing research on OGC's WPS integration to the > > > Airavata.During > > > > > the > > > > > > > research we have found some existing work flow generation tools > > > like > > > > > > > Tarverna, Kepler , > > > > > > > Pegasus and Triana. We would like if we can some details and > > points > > > > > about > > > > > > > how Apache Airavata is differ from those tools? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > *Harsha Kumara* > > > > > > > *Undergraduate* > > > > > > > *Department of Computer Science and Engineering* > > > > > > > *University of Moratuwa* > > > > > > > *Sri Lanka.* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > *Shahani Markus Weerawarana, Ph.D.* > > > > *Computer Scientist* > > > > Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia. > > > > Visiting Scientist, Indiana University, USA. > > > > Visiting Lecturer, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Pavithra Kulathilaka. >
