Dear developers, I have some questions about Scufl2 and support for it that I hope someone on this list can answer for me please. I think they are generally of interest to the list.
The background is that I'm looking for a way of representing scientific workflows that is portable across different execution environments i.e., such that organisations/persons wanting to execute those workflows on their own preferred infrastructure and technologies are not tied into Taverna. I found in the description page of workflow bundles (https://taverna.incubator.apache.org/documentation/scufl2/bundle) that '...profiles define how these workflows can be realised and executed on different environments,...'. So perhaps it is possible? My questions are: 1. Is Scufl2 development actively progressing? How widespread is support for it? 2. Is there a version of Taverna Workbench that produces Scufl2 workflow bundles? 3. Allied to question (2) are further questions about: What is the status of Taverna Workbench 3.0? When will it be released? How is the community support for Apache Taverna growing? 4. Is there any work done or in progress on realising /executing Scufl2 workflows on Apache Spark? 5. Are there any tools/infrastructure other than the Taverna family that can interpret and execute Scufl2? 6. If I wanted to write workflows in a manner independent of execution technology, would Scufl2 be a good choice? What alternatives are there? Thanks in advance for your information and help. Kind regards -- Alex Alex Hardisty Alex Hardisty Director of Informatics Projects Cyfarwyddwr y Prosiect Gwybodeg School of Computer Science and Informatics Yr Ysgol Cyfrifiadureg a Gwybodeg Cardiff University, Queens Buildings Prifysgol Caerdydd, Adeiladau'r Frenhines 5, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA 5, The Parade, Caerdydd CF24 3AA United Kingdom Y Deyrnas Unedig tel: +44 (0)29 2087 4861 ffôn : +44 (0)29 2087 4861 email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ebost: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> skype: alex.hardisty skype: alex.hardisty orcid id: orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-4310<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-4310>
