Software Projects
For a diagram of the currently deployed infrastructure, see Overview.
NOTICE: The documentation provided below on the "workflow broker" refers to a version of that service which is no longer supported. Much of the page is also lagging (the Ogrescript user's guide is missing entries for a number of new tasks). The following links refer to more recent work:
For the most recent description of the workflow engine, see PWE2008.
Some guidelines for using version 3.0+: Siege_3.0.
Download of PTPFLOW.
Download of ptpflow-examples.
The most up-to-date documentation is now being made available as Eclipse Help Pages (ncsa.eclipse.help plugin) distributed on the PTPFLOW update site.
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The following (especially Workflow Broker), are out of date:
Libraries
Name | Description |
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Multi-protocol file transport library | |
Extensible XML scripting language |
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Name | Description | ||
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Robust, extensible container for remotely launched scripts | |||
Mananges remote actions | Handles metadata updates to the MyLEAD Agent; also produces WS Events |
Web Services
Name | Description |
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Scalable, high-level control-flow service with parameterization capabilities for generating and managing ensemble-like workflows | |
Persistent store for accessing historical event info | |
Information service holding host-based data | |
Configuration Tuple Space | Tuple-space-like service for distributed exchange of Configuration descriptionsserialized XML objects |
Graphical User Interfaces
Name | Description |
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Extensible front-end client based on Eclipse Rich Client Platform |
Guides
Work in Progress
- Complete integration of Broker into LEAD workflow; see further under MyLEAD Relay Agent (Rossi).
- A tuple-space-like service for use in connection with "glide-in" submissions of many-member parameterized workflow nodes (Rossi)
- Supporting mechanisms in the Broker and ELF for handling "glide-in" capabilities (Rossi)
- A configuration service for storing re-usable execute configurations (Rossi)
- Modifications to the broker to support dynamic configuration of execute nodes via matching on such stored configurations (Rossi)
- Full implementation of the scheduling module using some combination of MOAB and Batch Queue Predictor (Rossi)
- JMS Trigger implementation for Trigger Agent (Rossi)
- Fortran Namelist Editing View for Siege (Rossi)
Developers
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- principal: Siege, Elf, Trigger Agent
- contributor: Ogrescript, Workflow Broker
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