Hi Suresh/Saminda, After reading the paper, i have come up with this,
1. we need a configurable interface to customize the data required to start emulator. 2. Application emulation - Dummy applications(proxy services) can register via Xbaya, once the dummy application receives the input message, it invokes the task state simulation chain and returns the output to the workflow. 3. Application availability and Failure model - to provide a better real world scenario, user can config the failure rate of each task state as user's requirement. 4. Pluggable interface to grid emulators and cloud emulators. We need to find/develop a good Failure level management algorithm to provide better real world simulation interface, and scalable to handle large number of workflows. However, may be, implementing all above mentioned features will not be the best fit with scope of GSoC. This is just my initial idea after reading the paper. I would like to know all of your ideas in improving this further. WDYT? Thanks, Shameera On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Lavanya Ramakrishnan <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Suresh, > > That paper is 3 yrs old :) that was the paper summarized the emulator > idea that I used for my thesis. Glad to see it is still being looked at. > Some one in Beth's lab was also looking at the code recently as well. > > Lavanya > > On Mar 23, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Lavanya, > > > > I was pleasantly surprised to see you are still furthering the idea of > workflow emulator, this paper seem to be very recent [1]. We had unfinished > workflow emulators which we offered as GSoC projects last year and we are > resurrecting it now. I will advice the students to shamelessly steal ideas > from your paper. > > > > Hi Shameera, > > > > I was about to re-write Saminda's task description on the emulators, but > Lavanya's paper [1] saved me some time. Why don't you read through the > paper and propose back concrete GSoC tasks you see as applicable to current > Airavata Workflow Interpreter. Do not worry to take the approaches > literally and be liberal in your thinking and implementation. But the paper > should give you a good head start. As you explore Airavata, just throw some > ideas and we will help you refine them. > > > > Cheers, > > Suresh > > > > [1] - http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7050q8mk > > > > On Mar 23, 2013, at 3:11 PM, "Shameera Rathnayaka (JIRA)" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-346?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13611833#comment-13611833] > >> > >> Shameera Rathnayaka commented on AIRAVATA-346: > >> ---------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Hi devs, > >> > >> As I mentioned in dev mailing list I would like to do this as my GSOC > project. Saminda/Suresh/devs can you provide me more details or shall we > discuss in improving this project? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Shameera. > >> > >>> [GSoC] Framework to run/monitor workflows locally with simulated/dummy > BE > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> Key: AIRAVATA-346 > >>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-346 > >>> Project: Airavata > >>> Issue Type: New Feature > >>> Reporter: Saminda Wijeratne > >>> Assignee: Saminda Wijeratne > >>> Labels: gsoc2012, gsoc2013, mentor > >>> > >>> It is common to need to test something you've created on a test > environment rather than on a real setup. This is because, > >>> 1. The tasks are trivial and it'll be faster to run locally to verify > correct flow/execution. > >>> 2. It can cost to run them on a real setup at development stage. > >>> 3. Proper access to the real setup is not available > >>> 4. Unit testing on a real setup is unfeasible > >>> Thus it would be easy for the user if there is a way to setup a > simulated environment without much difficulty may be perhaps with some > dummy data from the user itself. Effectively it will be behaving exactly as > a GFac server/message box/registry etc but with hard wired data. As an > example ideally it would be like the Azure simulator I guess. > >> > >> -- > >> This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > >> If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA > administrators > >> For more information on JIRA, see: > http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > > > -- Best Regards, Shameera Rathnayaka. Blog : http://shameerarathnayaka.blogspot.com/
