XSEDE Workflow Workshop

SCEC's Scott Callaghan presented a workshop on workflows at a June 2012 XSEDE workshop in Dublin Ireland. Below is a copy of the presentation materials from that workshop.

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Characteristics of a Workflow System

Most workflow systems will provide the following capabilities.

1. Format for expressing program execution order and data dependencies.
2. Job scheduler that automates the orderly execution of the programs.
3. File and metadata management to track files in system.
4. Support for distributed processing across multiple computing resources.