Marvin Workflow Management System

Introduction

A Pilot-API based Workflow Management System with a brain the size of the universe.

Installation

$ pip install marvin-wfms

Usage

$ python marvin.py <workflow.xml> <input.xml>

  <workflow.xml>: is a GWENDIA based workflow.
  <input.xml>: the values to be used by the corresponding input ports.

Related publications

Exploring Dynamic Enactment of Scientific Workflows using Pilot-Abstractions. Mark Santcroos, Barbera DC van Schaik, Shayan Shahand, Silvia Delgado Olabarriaga, Andre Luckow, Shantenu Jha 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, 2013. https://raw.github.com/saga-project/radical.wp/master/publications/pdf/ccgrid-pilotapi_draft.pdf

P*: A Model of Pilot-Abstractions. Luckow, A., Santcroos, M., Merzky, A., Weidner, O., Mantha, P., & Jha, S. (2012). Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on e-Science 2012. https://raw.github.com/saga-project/radical.wp/master/publications/pdf/pstar12_draft.pdf

A data-driven workflow language for grids based on array programming principles. Montagnat, J., Isnard, B., Glatard, T., Maheshwari, K., & Fornarino, M. (2009). WORKS '09: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1645171