Announcement about Workflow future plans

Thu Jul 7 05:29:48 PDT 2011

Thanks Dan, it was just a problem with the "end bracket", it was
included in the link address. I've just realized.
Cheers, Ana

----- Mensaje original -----
De: "Daniel S. Katz" <dsk at ci.uchicago.edu>
Fecha: Jueves, Julio 7, 2011 14:21
Asunto: Re: Announcement about Workflow future plans
A: ANA INES GOMEZ DE CASTRO <anai_gomez at mat.ucm.es>
CC: Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>, andre schaaff <andre.schaaff at astro.unistra.fr>, interop at ivoa.net

> I cannot post to the list, but it does work for me - perhaps it 
> was a transient error?
> 
> It redirects to http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/main/
> 
> both URLs currently work for me.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Jul 7, 2011, at 4:31 AM, ANA INES GOMEZ DE CASTRO wrote:
> 
> > Dear Michael and Dan,
> > 
> > the link you've provided does not work (it's not found in the 
> server).> Is it temporarily down? could you provide additional 
> information?> Cheers, Ana
> > 
> > Prof. Ana I. Gómez de Castro
> > Fac. de Ciencias Matemáticas
> > Universidad Complutense de Madrid
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Mensaje original -----
> > De: Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>
> > Fecha: Miércoles, Julio 6, 2011 20:56
> > Asunto: Re: Announcement about Workflow future plans
> > A: andre schaaff <andre.schaaff at astro.unistra.fr>
> > CC: "Daniel S. Katz" <dsk at ci.uchicago.edu>, interop at ivoa.net
> > 
> > > Dear André, All,
> > > 
> > > Swift (http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift) is a parallel 
> scripting 
> > > language for many-task applications, a computing model that 
> > > encompasses most astronomy pipelines and workflows. Swift 
> was 
> > > developed at UChicago and Argonne National Laboratory by 
> many 
> > > collaborators over the last five years. It performs 
> efficient 
> > > automatic parallel execution of many-task applications on 
> > > desktops, clusters, supercomputers, clouds, and grids.
> > > 
> > > Dan Katz, Jon Monette and I have developed a Swift version 
> of 
> > > Montage as a demonstration of how Swift can contribute to 
> > > astronomy.  We are interested in learning how we can 
> best 
> > > contribute to the IVOA workflow effort.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Michael Wilde and Dan Katz
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > Dear all,
> > > > 
> > > > As you know we will soon be facing a new generation of 
> > > facilities and
> > > > archives dealing with huge amounts of data (ALMA, LSST, 
> panSTARRS,> > > LOFAR, SKA pathfinders,..) where scientific 
> Workflows will 
> > > play an
> > > > important role in the working methodology of astronomers. 
> A detailed
> > > > analysis about the state of the art of workflows in the 
> frame 
> > > of the
> > > > VO
> > > > involves languages, design tools, execution engines, use 
> > > cases, etc. A
> > > > major topic is also the preservation of the workflows and the
> > > > capability
> > > > to replay a workflow several years after its design and
> > > > implementation.
> > > > Several talks concerning these issues have been presented 
> > > during the
> > > > past IVOA Interop meetings (see references below).
> > > > 
> > > > In order to undertake this task within our community we 
> think 
> > > that as
> > > > a
> > > > first step a Note should be written. Participation is 
> welcome, in
> > > > particular, we would like to collect experiences 
> (including 
> > > use cases,
> > > > tools, etc.), references, remarks, etc. We plan the Note 
> to be
> > > > published
> > > > around September and discussed at the Pune Interop 
> meeting. We 
> > > should> then decide on starting a working draft describing 
> those 
> > > aspects and
> > > > possibly in a new Interest Group on Workflows.
> > > > 
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > André Schaaff and Jose Enrique Ruiz
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > References (not exhaustive)
> > > > 
> > > > Some presentations in the VO
> > > > 
> > > > Naples DCP session,
> > > > 
> > > 
> http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InteropMay2011DCP/Wf4EverNaples.pdf> Nara DCP session,
> > > > http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpDec2010DCP/Wf4Ever.pdf
> > > > Garching GWS session,
> > > > 
> http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpNov2009GWS/Garching-
> > > GWSWorkflow.pdf> Baltimore Application session,
> > > > 
> > > 
> http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpOct2008Applications/GWS-DM-REG-301008.pdf
> > > > Trieste GWS session,
> > > > 
> > > 
> http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2008GridAndWebServices/GWS-Charac-Workflow-20May08.pdf
> > > > 
> > > > Some projects with a link to the VO
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.france-ov.org/twiki/bin/view/GROUPEStravail/Workflow
> > > > http://amiga.iaa.es/p/212-web-services-based-scientific-
> > > workflows.htm> http://www.wf4ever-project.org/web/guest/home
> > > > 
> > > > Euro-VO DCA Theory and Grid Workshops
> > > > 
> > > > http://sait.oat.ts.astro.it/MSAIt800209/PDF/559.pdf
> > > > http://sait.oat.ts.astro.it/MSAIt800209/PDF/574.pdf
> > > > http://sait.oat.ts.astro.it/MSAIt800209/PDF/578.pdf
> > > > 
> > > > ADASS
> > > > 
> > > > ADASS London,
> > > > 
> > > 
> http://www.adass.org:8080/Conferences/2007/Venue/talks/session4a/adass2007-schaaff-final.pdf
> > > > ADASS London, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ASPC..394..273J
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Michael Wilde
> > > Computation Institute, University of Chicago
> > > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> > > Argonne National Laboratory
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel S. Katz
> University of Chicago
> (773) 834-7186 (voice)
> (773) 834-6818 (fax)
> d.katz at ieee.org or dsk at ci.uchicago.edu
> http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

 Prof. Ana I. Gómez de Castro
Fac. de Ciencias Matemáticas
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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