Scientific workflow management - For whom?
Date Issued
2014
Author(s)
Olabarriaga, Silvia D.
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Pierantoni, Gabrielle
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Jaghoori, Mahdi
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Korkhov, Vladimir
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Castelli, Giuliano
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Carley, Eoin
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Bentley, Bob
Description
The authors thank colleagues from the INAF IT group who participated to the development and design of VisIVO
workflows and science gateway, in particular F. Vitello, P. Massimino and A. Costa. The authors are grateful to the
HELIO team for their support, to J. Walsh for his help in maintaining the infrastructure and to J. Byrne, D. Perez
Suarez and P. Higgins who helped with the Science Cases.
The authors also thank the colleagues from the AMC e-science group and collaborators, in particular S. Shahand, M. Santcroos, M. Caan, A. van Kampen and B. van Schaik. The Dutch e-Science Grid is financially supported by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO, and by Sticht-
ing SURF. This work was developed within ER-Flow (FP7 INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1 contract 312579) and SCI-BUS (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011 contract 283481) projects.
Abstract
Workflow management has been widely adopted by scientific communities as a valuable tool to carry out complex experiments. It allows for the possibility to perform computations for data analysis and simulations, whereas hiding details of the complex infrastructures underneath. There are many workflow management systems that offer a large variety of generic services to coordinate the execution of workflows. Nowadays, there is a trend to extend the functionality of workflow management systems to cover all possible requirements that may arise from a user community. However, there are multiple scenarios for usage of workflow systems, involving various actors that require different services to be supported by these systems. In this paper we reflect about the usage scenarios of scientific workflow management based on the practical experience of heavy users of workflow technology from communities in three scientific domains: Astrophysics, Heliophysics and Biomedicine. We discuss the requirements regarding services and information to be provided by the workflow management system for each usage profile, and illustrate how these requirements are fulfilled by the tools these communities currently adopt. This paper contributes to the understanding of properties of future workflow management systems that are important to increase their adoption in a large variety of usage scenarios.
Coverage
2014 IEEE 10th International Conference on e-Science
Volume
1
Start page
298
Conferenece
2014 IEEE 10th International Conference on e-Science
Conferenece place
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Conferenece date
20-24 October, 2014
Rights
open.access
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