[ogsa-wg] FW: Workflow and Altair (PBS)

[Stephen M Pickles]

Has OGSA-WG made any overtures to WFM-RG?
I've seen signs of renewed activity there.

Stephen 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org 
> [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Donal K. Fellows
> Sent: 12 April 2007 11:42
> To: ogsa-wg at ogf.org
> Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] FW: Workflow and Altair (PBS)
> 
> Andrew Grimshaw (as channeled by AS) wrote:
> > He wondered if workflow was the best place for OGSA to spend its 
> > efforts? Security was mentioned.
> 
> In response to this, I'd like to point out that the set of people
> willing to work on workflows and the set working on security 
> are not the
> same (e.g. I don't personally want to work on security 
> standardization!)
> so saying that we should drop dealing with one in favour of the other
> isn't really going to work.
> 
> > They're interested in whatever we do with workflow, but not 
> in a burning 
> > sort of way.
> 
> I suspect that the most valuable thing at the workflow level 
> would be if
> we had some common way of describing workflows in a way that 
> is relevant
> for grids. I suspect that the best way of couching this is to 
> ask "what
> is the best way of describing an abstract workflow to a workflow
> enactment engine", such that something like JSDL documents form
> components of the workflow request. While a BPEL profile could be used
> for this, I suspect that it's not at the right level; too 
> much is about
> the messages sent to the services, and not enough is about the
> activities triggered in response to said messages.
> 
> Donal (probably not explaining this right).
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