Section: New Software and Platforms

XPFlow

Participants : Tomasz Buchert, Lucas Nussbaum [correspondant] .

XPFlow is an implementation of a new, workflow-inspired approach to control experiments involving large-scale computer installations. Such systems pose many difficult problems to researchers due to their complexity, their numerous constituents and scalability problems. The main idea of the approach consists in describing the experiment as a workflow and execute it using achievements of Business Process Management (BPM), workflow management techniques and scientific workflows. The website of XPFlow is http://xpflow.gforge.inria.fr/ . XPFlow was featured in a tutorial during Grid'5000 Spring School 2014.

Software classification: A-2-up, SO-3-up, SM-2-up, EM-3-up, SDL-2-up, DA-4, CD-4, MS-4, TPM-4.