Dear Colleagues:

Recently we developed a A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid
Computing and mapped the same of some existing systems. The article (abstract
given below) can be downloaded from:
http://www.gridbus.org/reports/GridWorkflowTaxonomy.pdf
I am interested in hearing your comments on how well this captures Grid workflow
attributes? does it miss anything? It will be great to hear your comments or
suggestions of improving the work.

BTW, there was a job ad on Grid area: I enclosed it at the end in case any of
you are interested in it.

Thanks in advance.
cheers
raj

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Title: A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing
Authors: Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya
Comments: 29 pages, 15 figures
Report-no: GRIDS-TR-2005-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory,
University of Melbourne, Australia, March 10, 2005
Subj-class: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
ACM-class: D.1
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With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and
engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process
large data sets, and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources.
Such application scenarios require means for composing and executing complex
workflows. Therefore, many efforts have been made towards the development of
workflow management systems for Grid computing. In this paper, we propose a
taxonomy that characterizes and classifies various approaches for building and
executing workflows on Grids. We also survey several representative Grid
workflow systems developed by various projects world-wide to demonstrate the
comprehensiveness of the taxonomy. The taxonomy with survey not only highlights
the state-of-the-art in Grid workflow systems, but also outlines the needs of
further enhancements.
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From: "Madhushree Kulkarni" <madhu_shree_in@...>
Date: Fri Mar 4, 2005 10:19pm
Subject: Off Topic

Greeting!

We are currently looking out for Technical Leads or Senior
Professionals with expertise on Grid Computing. The position is
based in Pune.

Core Skills:

Java/J2EE or .NET, Design of complex systems, Parallel processing,
Application architecting using Grid computing (Globus Toolkit),
mainframe migration to distributed architectures.


Technical Environment:

Java/J2EE, Linux, Microsoft.NET, Globus toolkit.

Scope of Work:

Architecting technical environment and applications in Grid
computing environment, migration of mainframe applications to
distributed environments such as .NET/J2EE, parallising applications.