From Java CoG Kit

Gregor von Laszewski, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60440

Contents 1 Overview Table 2 Incomplete list of Workflows reported to us 2.1 Java CoG Kit Workflow (Karajan) 2.2 ASKALON 2.3 Matrix 2.4 Nimrod 2.5 GSFL 2.6 GridNexus and JXPL 2.7 Taverna 2.8 GSiB 2.9 Triana 2.10 JISGA 2.11 GSiB 2.12 GRMS 2.13 S-WFMS 2.14 Triana 2.15 Virtual Data System 3 Not yet reviewed 3.1 Action 3.2 Visual Workflo(FileNet) 3.3 OpenPM 3.4 Flowmark 3.5 Ultimus 3.6 Inconcert 4 Refernces 5 Acknowledgments

Overview Table

Name	Interface	Language	Tools	Comments	Description
Askalon	GUI	AGWL CGWL	Globus Tookit	Abstract workflow described by AWFL to concrete workflow described by CWFL
Dagman	command line	Direct Acyclic Graph	GT2 (Condor-G)	Direct Acyclic Graph, Does not deal with either Web or Grid based services
Fiswidget	GUI	custom XML	NA	neuroimaging analysis
Gridant	Graphical workflow visualizer (ANL)	NA	CoG	Superseeded by CoG Karajan
GridNexus	PtolemyII Java GUI	JXPL	GT3	Graphic interface for complex data analysis
Grid Service Broker	Command line, Java based Grid API	NA	GT2, Alchemi	Aims to parametric computing
GRMS	command line and GridSphere Web portlet	DAG/ PetriNet	Pre-WS GT	meta-scheduling system, remote job control
JOpera	Eclipse 3.1	Directed Cyclic Labeled Graphs	WSDL, WSRF, GT4, SSH, Condor	extensible services
CoG Kit (Karajan)	command line, GUI	XML based	GT2.4, GT3.02, SSH	Aims to suit workflow
Kepler	GUI	NA	NA	actor oriented modeling
Matrix	NA	DGL	CoG	data grid workflow, peer to peer infrastructure
Nimrod	GUI	NA	Globus Tookit	Distributed parametric modeling, combines DCE and remote queuing system
Pegasus	NA	NA	Globus Tookit	Mapping abstract workflow to executable workflow with some optimization methods
Taverna	Freefluo-workflow enactment engine, Taverna Workbench-GUI	Scufl XScufl	NA	can be extensible by plug in processors
Triana	Command line, GUI	WSFL	NA	peer to peer mechanism

Incomplete list of Workflows reported to us

Java CoG Kit Workflow (Karajan)

• Link: http://www.cogkit.org
• Description: Karajan is a workflow specification language and execution engine, being developed within the Java CoG Kit. Execution engine is based on the Globus Toolkit, while the language is a common purpose XML-based language which can express complicated workflows including conditional control flows and loops.

ASKALON

• Link: http://dps.uibk.ac.at/projects/askalon/parallel/
• Purpose: A programming environment and tool set for cluster and grid computing
• Comment: tools to support automated parallelization and optimization of programs

Matrix

• Link: http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB/matrix/
• Purpose: Data grid workflows and data grid administration
• Description: The SDSC Matrix Project builds a peer-to- peer infrastructure for Grid Workflow Management Systems (GfMS) and uses the Data Grid Language, which can be used to describe, query and control the execution of gridflow pipelines

Nimrod

• Link: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davida/nimrod/
• Purpose: Distributed parametric modelling
• Description: Nimrod uses a declarative parametric modeling language to express a parametric experiment and provides machinery that automates the task of formulating, running, monitoring, and collating the results from the multiple individual experiments.

GSFL

• Link: http://www-unix.globus.org/cog/papers/gsfl-paper.pdf

Description: Based on the Web Services Flow Language (WSFL), provides some specific enhancements for grid applications:peer-to-peer service interaction and complicated lifecycle management, is no longer maintained.

GridNexus and JXPL

• Link: http://gridnexus.org/
• References: http://www.globusworld.org/program/abstract.php?id=34
• Description: JXPL is LISP with XML syntax, implemented in Java. GridNexus is a data-flow oriented visual editor for JXPL. Uses a GUI to write a script in a new XML based language called JXPL, separates the graphical, interactive construction of the model from its execution

Taverna

• Link: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/
• References: http://www.gridlab.org/WorkPackages/wp-3/
• Purpose: Supporting workflows in bioinformatics
• Description: provides a language and software tools to facilitate easy use of workflow and distributed compute technology within the eScience community

GSiB

• Link: http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Yan.Huang/GridWF/GSiB.htm
• Description: intended to be an environment providing visual interfaces to a suite of tools for creating, deploying, managing, using, and querying Grid services, and serves as the intermediary between general users and the underlying OGSA-compliant Grid system

Triana

• http://www.trianacode.org/
• Application: Gravitational wave (GW) data analysis
• Description: Combines an intuitive visual interface with powerful data analysis tools,

includes a large library of pre-written analysis tools, easily integrate users’ own tools

JISGA

• Link: http://www.wesc.ac.uk/projects/jisga/ HTML]

GSiB

Link: http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Yan.Huang/GridWF/GSiB.htm

GRMS

• Link: http://www.man.poznan.pl/pcss/public/main/index.html
• Refernces: PDF

S-WFMS

• Link: HTML

Triana

• Link: http://www.trianacode.org/

Virtual Data System

• http://vds.uchicago.edu/twiki/bin/view/VDSWeb/WebMain
• Description: Uses Chimera and Pegasus, check also Grid3. A neat concept of applying function-like transformations to data. Basic trasformations (jobs) can be composed in order to create more complex transformations (workflows). The resulting abstract composition is then supplied input data, concretized (bound to specific computational resources) by a workflow planner (Pegasus), and then submitted for execution using Condor DAGMan.

Not yet reviewed

Action

• Link http://www.actiontech.com/

Visual Workflo(FileNet)

• http://is.twi.tudelft.nl/~hommes/tl1918.html

OpenPM

• References: PDF

Flowmark

• Link: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg242184.html

Ultimus

• http://www.quixa.com/ultimus/overview.asp

Inconcert

• References: HTML

Refernces

• http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/swf-survey/
• Converted page from Alek Scientific Workflow Survey
• http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DC/0503025
• http://www.gridworkflow.org/snips/gridworkflow/space/start
• http://is.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/
• http://www.activebpel.org/index.html
• [1] Sriram Krishnan, Patrick Wagstrom, Gregor von Laszewski, “GSFL: A Workflow Framework for Grid Services”, http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~zhljenny/PDF/gsflAFrameworkforGridServices.pdf
• [2] I. Foster, C. Kesselman, and S. Tuecke, “The anatomy of the grid: enabling scalable virtual organization,” Int. J. Supercomputer Application, vol.15, no.3, 2001
• [3] Francesco Nerieri, Radu Prodan, Hong-Linh Truong, Thomas Fahringer, “Performance Analysis of Grid Workflow Application”
• [4] Lee-Sub LEE, Soo-Hyun PARK, and Doo-Kwon BAIK, “A Workflow Enactment Model for Next Generation Internet services”, IEICE TRANS.FUNDAMENTALS, vol.E87-A, no.6 June * 2004
• [5] Jiang Zhu, “Research on WebService Based Grid and An Improved Policy of Resource State Update”, Tianjin University Thesis
• [6] http://www.chinagrid.com/data/grid-20.htm

Acknowledgments

• Alexander Slominski (IU)
• Gregor von Laszewski (ANL)
• Mike Hategan (UC)
• Yanwei Wu (IIT)