Extend Airavata Workflow Enactment to support Amazon Simple Workflow Service
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Key: AIRAVATA-340
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-340
Project: Airavata
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: XBaya
Affects Versions: 0.4-INCUBATING
Reporter: Suresh Marru
Priority: Minor
Airavata's GFac enables users to wrap as web services and then use XBaya to
drag and drop those components to a workspace and define data flow and control
flow dependencies among the application nodes. Airavata's workflow system is
used for composing, executing, and monitoring workflow graphs of web service
components. The workflow description is high level abstraction and is converted
to lower level execution run times like BPEL, SCUFL and Python scripts.
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) is a newly launched workflow
service from Amazon. This service is of interest to Airavata user community to
execute coupled applications on Amazon cloud computational resources.
Extend Airavata workflow execution to support Amazon SWF will enhance the
capabilities provided by Airavata. The airavata developer community will
provide detailed guidance and assistance.
There is extensive literature about Airavata WS Messenger including 4 research
papers. The Airavata community will provide guidance and assistance with the
project.
User community & Impact of the software: Airavata is primarily targeted to
build science gateways using computational resources from various disciplines.
The initial targeted set of gateways include projects supporting research and
education in chemistry, life sciences, biophysics, environmental sciences,
geosciences astronomy and nuclear physics. The goal of airavata is to enhance
productivity of these gateways to utilize cyberinfrastructure of resources
(e.g., local lab resources, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery
Environment (XSEDE), the Open Science Grid (OSG), University Clusters, Academic
and Commercial Computational Clouds like FutureGrid & Amazon EC2). By using
open community based software components and services like Airavata, gateways
will be able to focus on providing additional scientific capabilities and to
expanding the number of supported users. The capabilities of these gateways
will offer clear benefits to society.
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