[ogsa-wg] Windows Workflow

[Hiro Kishimoto]

Thanks Steven,

 > In under two days I was able to (from scratch) build some custom
 > workflow activities to transfer files to/from a server over FTP and to
 > use the HPCP web service to run a job on a cluster resource. This time
 > also included gaining familiarity with the Visual Studio IDE, the
 > Workflow builder components within that, oh and gaining familiarity with
 > C#. From a developer perspective I’m obviously quite impressed!

Excellent!

Can you explain your workflow at this Thursday's call or F2F meeting
next week?

Thanks,
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Hiro Kishimoto

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Subject: [ogsa-wg] ***SPAM***  Windows Workflow
From: Steven Newhouse <Steven.Newhouse at microsoft.com>
To: ogsa-wg at ogf.org <ogsa-wg at ogf.org>
Date: 2007/08/08 5:50

> AI-0614a: Steven Newhouse will check whether Windows Workflow can also 
> be used with CCS / BES style services
> 
>  
> 
> In under two days I was able to (from scratch) build some custom 
> workflow activities to transfer files to/from a server over FTP and to 
> use the HPCP web service to run a job on a cluster resource. This time 
> also included gaining familiarity with the Visual Studio IDE, the 
> Workflow builder components within that, oh and gaining familiarity with 
> C#. From a developer perspective I’m obviously quite impressed!
> 
>  
> 
> I did not really explore all of the different workflow activities that 
> come provided (parallel, if/else, while, etc.) but the ones I did all 
> seemed fairly straightforward to use. Its straightforward to give an 
> activity properties and to specify these as customizations within a 
> workflow. This allowed me to move a file from my workflow client to the 
> HPC resource, to start a job on the resource, and to transfer back an 
> output file. There are opportunities for simplifying this… e.g. parsing 
> the JSDL file to extract out the transfer ins & outs. And to make the 
> workflow more complex!
> 
>  
> 
> There’s a whole load of stuff on validation, hibernating/dehibernating 
> running workflows, persistence, etc. that I did not explore.
> 
>  
> 
> With a set of pre-defined configurable activities I see no reason why a 
> technically competent person (not a programmer) could not use a 
> preconfigured environment to build and run their own workflows.
> 
>  
> 
> Steven
> 
>  
> 
> PS: I am sure there are other equally excellent ways of doing this in 
> other environments… my focus was on the Windows tooling.
> 
> 
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