Hi Shoaib and Others, Many thanks for the replies, al seems very healthy. Depending on how the project goes you may find me posting more often :)
Cheers Dirk On Wednesday 17 March 2010 17:48:09 Shoaib Sufi wrote: > Hi Dirk, > > Thank you for your question about Taverna and apologies for not > responding to your earlier request. > > Taverna is a core product of the myGrid team and has acquired funding until > 2013. In addition we are always seeking more funding and the project > eader - Professor Carole Goble - has an excellent track record with > regards to funding and successful research collaborations. > > Longer term plans beyond the year are always difficult but here are a > list of things we are planning or looking into: > > 1) Transition to the next generation workbench (eclipse based) being > the defacto workbench - base on Direct Manipulation UI research > 2) High performance Taverna Server (scalability, proven integration > with different security frameworks) > 3) Enterprise tooling for the Taverna Server (load balancing across > clusters) 4) Taverna and Cloud integration (e.g. using Taverna to deploy > and interact with a cloud configuration, environment bootstrapping in the > workflow or workflows environment). > 5) Semantic support (e.g. enforcing ontological assertions about > services and restricting inputs based upon regular expressions in > schemas) > 6) Integration with resourecs over SSH (via the ARC plugin) > 7) Seamless integration with service catalogs (e.g. BioCatalogue) > 8) Seamless Integration with data and workflow repositories > 9) Agreed and compatible OSGi bundling strategy with other projects > (e.g CIShell, BioEclipse, VBrowser) > 10) REST Support > 11) Open Linked Data support > 12) Best of breed support and integration for white box, grey box and > black box provenance > 13) Different modes of operation (data centric, process centric, comad > approaches) > 14) Integrating best practice from the Service Orientated Architecture > movement 15) Integrated workflow patterns > 16) Experiment with new user interaction platforms (Mobile, Tablet, > Surface). > > The roadmap on the Taverna site will be updated soon to reflect these > areas of development. > > Taverna has been going for at least eight years and we are > technically, tactically and strategically trying to advance is and its > use to create a great product and platform that is of use in different > domains and in different deployment scenarios. > > We take our user community very seriously and are (usually ;-) ) very > responsive to issues. > > If you would like to talk further or there was any feature/issue in > particular you want to know about please let us know. > > Best Regards, > Shoaib > Technical Project Manager, myGrid > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Dirk Gorissen > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello. > > > > First of all congratulations with a very nice (and open) piece of > > software. > > > > I sent this message the the [email protected] address but did not get > > a reply, so I will try here. > > > > I am part of a aerospace research project at Soton and we are in need of > > a workflow engine to underlie our software stack. I am evaluating > > different engines and Taverna is one of them. > > > > I wanted to ask about the longer term plans of Taverna. The roadmap > > covers this year but is there an estimate how long funding will continue > > and what will happen when funding ceases? If we decide to build our > > toolchain around Taverna it would be good if the project is still > > actively developed 3 years down the line. > > > > Also, if anybody is aware of any other uses of Taverna in more > > engineering oriented projects (vs Bioinformatics and related fields) > > that would also be interesting to hear. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Dirk > > -- > > Dirk Gorissen > > Postdoctoral Researcher > > Computational Engineering and Design Research Group > > Room 2041, Building 25, Highfield Campus > > School of Engineering Sciences > > University of Southampton > > Tel: +44-2380-598-369 > > E-mail: [email protected] > > Web: http://www.dirkgorissen.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > taverna-hackers mailing list > > [email protected] > > Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk > > Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/ > > Developers Guide: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/developer-information > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > taverna-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk > Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/ > Developers Guide: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/developer-information -- Dirk Gorissen Postdoctoral Researcher Computational Engineering and Design Research Group Room 2041, Building 25, Highfield Campus School of Engineering Sciences University of Southampton Tel: +44-2380-598-369 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.dirkgorissen.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. 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