DocumentCode :
1987482
Title :
A general and scalable solution for heterogeneous workflow invocation and nesting
Author :
Kukla, Tamas ; Kiss, Tamas ; Terstyanszky, Gabor ; Kacsuk, Peter
Author_Institution :
Centre for Parallel Comput., Univ. of Westminster, London
fYear :
2008
fDate :
17-17 Nov. 2008
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
8
Abstract :
Several widely utilized, grid workflow management systems emerged in the last decade. These systems were developed by different scientific communities for various purposes. Enhancing these systems with the capability of invoking and nesting the workflows of other systems within their native workflows makes these communities to be able to carry out cross-organizational experiments and share non-native workflows. The novel solution described in this paper allows the integration of different workflow engines and makes them accessible for workflow systems in order to achieve this goal. The solution is based on an application repository and submitter, which exposes different workflow engines and executes them using the computational resources of the grid. In contrast with other approaches, our solution is scalable in terms of both number of workflows and amount of data, easily extendable in the sense that the integration of a new workflow engine does not require code re-engineering, and general, since it can be adopted by numerous workflow systems.
Keywords :
grid computing; natural sciences computing; workflow management software; cross-organizational experiments; grid workflow management systems; heterogeneous workflow invocation; scientific communities; Automation; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Engines; Informatics; Laboratories; Parallel processing; Petri nets; Risk management; Workflow management software;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, 2008. WORKS 2008. Third Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2827-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WORKS.2008.4723963
Filename :
4723963
Link To Document :
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