Everyone,
It
was great to meet you at SOS20!
I
promised to follow up by email to keep our
conversation going, and to help nucleate a
community around workflow management issues common
in scientific computing and commensurate with our
shared interest in HPC. We should consider what we
want this discussion and community to
be about. I propose that in addition to normal
collaboration (coding, research, etc.) we help
each other with general questions, share
experience, help communicate domain science needs,
and to engage others in the workflow community. It
would be especially good to engage members
of project teams for other workflow engines such
as Pegasus, Fireworks, Galaxy, Taverna, etc.
One
of the things we wanted to figure out was whether
or not we should pursue our discussion as part of
the Science Working Group, which is managed by the
Eclipse Foundation, or if we should
start something on our own. My personal
recommendation is to do this as part of the
Science Working Group because we already have a
mailing list, community forum, and other
infrastructure. Please write back and let me know
how you feel.
I
also have five action items from the end of our
BOF in addition to sending out this email. These
are only what I heard, so please feel free to add
to the list. They include:
1.)
Figuring out if there is an opportunity for Aiida
to work with other workflow engines.
2.)
Learning more about Robert Clay's Scientific Data
Management Proposal.
3.)
Planning or attending workshops to help build
community. (Robert is working on a couple
already).
4.)
Figuring out how to connect the Systems and
Workflow communities.
5.)
Start a Google Doc for discussing Provenance
models. (I'll get to it.)
Looking
forward to working with you,
Jay