Speaker: Ben Clifford,
Argonne National Laboratory/Globus/Swift
Date/Time: 30th April 2008, 13:00-14:00.
Location: Change of location: Room G74, Philip Lyle Building, Whiteknights Campus.
G39 School of Systems Engineering (building 38).
Map: http://www.info.rdg.ac.uk/maps/maps-display.asp
Abstract:
Swift is a system for the rapid and reliable specification, execution, and management of large-scale science and engineering workflows. It supports applications that execute many tasks coupled by disk-resident datasets - as is common, for example, when analyzing large quantities of data or performing parameter studies or ensemble simulations.
I will talk about some of the distinguishing features of Swift; some of the challenges that have arisen in areas such as: workflow language expressiveness, scalability of individual sites, selection between multiple sites, distributed systems debugging, porting of applications to fit within the Swift model, and data provenance; and approaches we have implemented or propose to address those challenges.
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