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Modern scientific discovery increasingly requires coordinating distributed facilities and heterogeneous resources, forcing researchers to act as manual workflow coordinators rather than scientists. Advances in AI leading to AI agents show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Woong Shin , Renan Souza , Daniel Rosendo , Frédéric Suter , Feiyi Wang , Prasanna Balaprakash , Rafael Ferreira da Silva

Workflow management systems allow the users to develop complex applications at a higher level, by orchestrating functional components without handling the implementation details. Although a wide range of workflow engines are developed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-10-06 Alexandru Costan , Corina Stratan , Eliana-Dina Tirsa , Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Valentin Cristea

The prevalence of scientific workflows with high computational demands calls for their execution on various distributed computing platforms, including large-scale leadership-class high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. To handle the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Tainã Coleman , Henri Casanova , Ketan Maheshwari , Loïc Pottier , Sean R. Wilkinson , Justin Wozniak , Frédéric Suter , Mallikarjun Shankar , Rafael Ferreira da Silva

Scientific workflows process extensive data sets over clusters of independent nodes, which requires a complex stack of infrastructure components, especially a resource manager (RM) for task-to-node assignment, a distributed file system…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Fabian Lehmann , Jonathan Bader , Friedrich Tschirpke , Ninon De Mecquenem , Ansgar Lößer , Soeren Becker , Katarzyna Ewa Lewińska , Lauritz Thamsen , Ulf Leser

Scientific workflow management systems support large-scale data analysis on cluster infrastructures. For this, they interact with resource managers which schedule workflow tasks onto cluster nodes. In addition to workflow task descriptions,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jonathan Bader , Kathleen West , Soeren Becker , Svetlana Kulagina , Fabian Lehmann , Lauritz Thamsen , Henning Meyerhenke , Odej Kao

Workflows are prevalent in today's computing infrastructures. The workflow model support various different domains, from machine learning to finance and from astronomy to chemistry. Different Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements and other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Laurens Versluis , Alexandru Iosup

The importance of workflows is highlighted by the fact that they have underpinned some of the most significant discoveries of the past decades. Many of these workflows have significant computational, storage, and communication demands, and…

The Workflows Community Summit gathered 111 participants from 18 countries to discuss emerging trends and challenges in scientific workflows, focusing on six key areas: time-sensitive workflows, AI-HPC convergence, multi-facility workflows,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Rafael Ferreira da Silva , Deborah Bard , Kyle Chard , Shaun de Witt , Ian T. Foster , Tom Gibbs , Carole Goble , William Godoy , Johan Gustafsson , Utz-Uwe Haus , Stephen Hudson , Shantenu Jha , Laila Los , Drew Paine , Frédéric Suter , Logan Ward , Sean Wilkinson , Marcos Amaris , Yadu Babuji , Jonathan Bader , Riccardo Balin , Daniel Balouek , Sarah Beecroft , Khalid Belhajjame , Rajat Bhattarai , Wes Brewer , Paul Brunk , Silvina Caino-Lores , Henri Casanova , Daniela Cassol , Jared Coleman , Taina Coleman , Iacopo Colonnelli , Anderson Andrei Da Silva , Daniel de Oliveira , Pascal Elahi , Nour Elfaramawy , Wael Elwasif , Brian Etz , Thomas Fahringer , Wesley Ferreira , Rosa Filgueira , Jacob Fosso Tande , Luiz Gadelha , Andy Gallo , Daniel Garijo , Yiannis Georgiou , Philipp Gritsch , Patricia Grubel , Amal Gueroudji , Quentin Guilloteau , Carlo Hamalainen , Rolando Hong Enriquez , Lauren Huet , Kevin Hunter Kesling , Paula Iborra , Shiva Jahangiri , Jan Janssen , Joe Jordan , Sehrish Kanwal , Liliane Kunstmann , Fabian Lehmann , Ulf Leser , Chen Li , Peini Liu , Jakob Luettgau , Richard Lupat , Jose M. Fernandez , Ketan Maheshwari , Tanu Malik , Jack Marquez , Motohiko Matsuda , Doriana Medic , Somayeh Mohammadi , Alberto Mulone , John-Luke Navarro , Kin Wai Ng , Klaus Noelp , Bruno P. Kinoshita , Ryan Prout , Michael R. Crusoe , Sashko Ristov , Stefan Robila , Daniel Rosendo , Billy Rowell , Jedrzej Rybicki , Hector Sanchez , Nishant Saurabh , Sumit Kumar Saurav , Tom Scogland , Dinindu Senanayake , Woong Shin , Raul Sirvent , Tyler Skluzacek , Barry Sly-Delgado , Stian Soiland-Reyes , Abel Souza , Renan Souza , Domenico Talia , Nathan Tallent , Lauritz Thamsen , Mikhail Titov , Benjamin Tovar , Karan Vahi , Eric Vardar-Irrgang , Edite Vartina , Yuandou Wang , Merridee Wouters , Qi Yu , Ziad Al Bkhetan , Mahnoor Zulfiqar

Workflow is a common term used to describe a systematic breakdown of tasks that need to be performed to solve a problem. This concept has found best use in scientific and business applications for streamlining and improving the performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Samiya Khan , Kashish Ara Shakil , Mansaf Alam

In the recent years, scientific workflows gained more and more popularity. In scientific workflows, tasks are typically treated as black boxes. Dealing with their complex interrelations to identify optimization potentials and bottlenecks is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Ansgar Lößer , Joel Witzke , Florian Schintke , Björn Scheuermann

Workflow management systems (WMS) support the composition and deployment of workflow-oriented applications in distributed computing environments. They hide the complexity of managing large-scale applications, which includes the controlling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Muhammad H. Hilman , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

With recent increasing computational and data requirements of scientific applications, the use of large clustered systems as well as distributed resources is inevitable. Although executing large applications in these environments brings…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-30 Alexandru Costan , Florin Pop , Corina Stratan , Ciprian Dobre , Catalin Leordeanu , Valentin Cristea

Scientific applications in HPC environment are more com-plex and more data-intensive nowadays. Scientists usually rely on workflow system to manage the complexity: simply define multiple processing steps into a single script and let the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Dong Dai , Robert Ross , Dounia Khaldi , Yonghong Yan , Matthieu Dorier , Neda Tavakoli , Yong Chen

Scientific machine learning research spans diverse domains and data modalities, yet existing benchmark efforts remain siloed and lack standardization. This makes novel and transformative applications of machine learning to critical…

Cloud computing has emerged as a promising platform for running scientific workflows across various domains. Scientists can take advantage of different cloud service models, such as serverful or serverless, to execute workflows based on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Saeid Abrishami , Faridreza Momtaz Zandi , Alireza Nourbakhsh

Running scientific workflows on a supercomputer can be a daunting task for a scientific domain specialist. Workflow management solutions (WMS) are a standard method for reducing the complexity of application deployment on high performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wouter Klijn , Sandra Diaz-Pier , Abigail Morrison , Alexander Peyser

Experimental science is enabled by the combination of synthesis, imaging, and functional characterization. Synthesis of a new material is typically followed by a set of characterization methods aiming to provide feedback for optimization or…

In this survey, we discuss the challenges of executing scientific workflows as well as existing Machine Learning (ML) techniques to alleviate those challenges. We provide the context and motivation for applying ML to each step of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Azita Nouri , Philip E. Davis , Pradeep Subedi , Manish Parashar

Motivation: Complex computational pipelines are becoming a staple of modern scientific research. Often these pipelines are resource intensive and require days of computing time. In such cases, it makes sense to run them over distributed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-01-28 David K. Brown , Thommas M. Musyoka , David L. Penkler , Özlem Tastan Bishop

The collaborative efforts of large communities in science experiments, often comprising thousands of global members, reflect a monumental commitment to exploration and discovery. Recently, advanced and complex data processing has gained…