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The workflow paradigm is widely considered as an important class of truly distributed Grid applications which poses many challenges for a Grid computing environment. Still to this time, rather few real-world applications have been successfully ported as Grid-enabled workflows. We present the Askalon programming and computing environment for the Grid which comprises a high-level abstract workflow language and a sophisticated service-oriented runtime environment including meta-scheduling, performance monitoring and analysis, and resource brokerage services.We demonstrate the development of a real-world river modelling distributed workflow system in the Askalon environment that harnesses the computational power of multiple Grid sites to optimise the overall execution time.
This research is partially supported by the Austrian Grid project funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture under the contract GZ 4003/2-VI/4c/2004.
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Duan, R., Fahringer, T., Prodan, R., Qin, J., Villazón, A., Wieczorek, M. (2005). Real World Workflow Applications in the Askalon Grid Environment. In: Sloot, P.M.A., Hoekstra, A.G., Priol, T., Reinefeld, A., Bubak, M. (eds) Advances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005. EGC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3470. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11508380_47
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