GSFL: A Workflow Framework for Grid Services

Overview

The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) tries to address the challenge of integrating services spread across distributed, heterogenous, dynamic "virtual organizations" using the concepts and technologies from both the Grid and Web service communities. The Web service community has realized that Web services can reach their full potential only if there exists a mechanism to describe the various interactions between the services and dynamically compose new services out of existing ones. This is true in the case of Grid services as well.

The Grid Services Flow Language (GSFL) is an effort to examine technologies that address workflow for Web services and leverage this technology for Grid services. This project contains both an XML schema definition for the specification of workflow in Grid environments and a reference implementation of the Workflow engine for use in the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI).

Contacts

This is a work in progress. For more information please contact:

Gregor von Laszewski
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439
gregor@mcs.anl.gov
(630) 252 0472

Team

Sriram Krishnan, Patrick Wagstrom, and Gregor von Laszewski.

Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Science Division subprogram of the Office of Advance Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38. DARPA, DOE, NSF support for the Globus Toolkit research and development. We thank all the members of the Globus Project for their valuable help. 

References

1. Sriram Krishnan, Patrick Wagstrom and Gregor von Laszewski. GSFL : A Workflow Framework for Grid Services (Draft - pdf), July 2002.