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Blue Waters Webinars

Scientific Workflows


Description: Scientific Workflows webinar track provides an overview of common scientific workflows and tools that enable them. This track is designed to inform participants of methods, approaches, and tools for solving such problems as task automation, job management, data staging, resource provisioning, provenance tracking, as well as many other. The track focuses on individual workflow tools, resources, and methods that enable robust and efficient workflows.

The webinars offered include:
2019
13. Reproducible data analysis with Snakemake

Presented by: Johannes Köster
Date: March 20, 2019
Youtube: https://youtu.be/hPrXcUUp70Y
Slides: Link (slides.com)
Survey: link (Google Forms)
12. Cloud Resource Federation for Galaxy
Presented by: Enis Afgan
Date: January 23, 2019
Youtube: https://youtu.be/1QCsckC8vHg
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Google Forms)
2018
11. Getting started with WDL and Cromwell for workflow management on multiple platforms
Presented by: Ruchi Munshi
Date: November 21, 2018
Youtube: https://youtu.be/mFzfeDTnDSk
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Google Forms)
10. Developing Interactive Parallel Workflows in Python using Parsl
Presented by: Kyle Chard
Date: October 10, 2018
Youtube: https://youtu.be/vWVN4XbXUgg
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Google Forms)
2017
9. High-performance workflows with Swift/T
Presented by: Justin Wozniak
Date: September 20, 2017
Youtube: https://youtu.be/BWRpboPBArI
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Google Forms)
8. VIKING: Scandinavian Online Kit For Nanoscale Modeling
Presented by: Ilia Solov'yov
Date: June 28, 2017
Youtube: https://youtu.be/QPLfeF5mjgQ
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Survey Monkey)
7. Data-flow networks and using the Copernicus workflow system
Presented by: Peter Kasson
Date: June 14, 2017
Youtube: https://youtu.be/dE6Iv1epJ98
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Survey Monkey)
6. Pegasus Workflow Management System
Presented by: Mats Rynge
Date: May 24, 2017
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ntyQHawpD_s
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Survey Monkey)
5. RADICAL-Cybertools: An abstractions-based approach to Scientific Workflows
Presented by: Shantenu Jha, Ioannis Paraskevakos
Date: May 10, 2017
Youtube: https://youtu.be/1zuC4Wy8ynE
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Survey Monkey)
4. Kepler Scientific Workflow System: Introduction to Workflow-Driven Scientific Computing
Presented by: Ilkay Altintas, Shweta Purawat
Date: April 26, 2017
Youtube: https://youtu.be/Spd2O4gh80k
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Survey Monkey)
3. Computational Data Workflow Mapping
Presented by: Elizabeth Wickes
Date: April 12, 2017
Youtube: https://youtu.be/hseix4TH0eU
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Survey Monkey)
2. Makeflow and Work Queue: Scaling Up from Laptops to Supercomputers
Presented by: Nate Kremer-Herman
Date: March 22, 2017
Youtube: https://youtu.be/s4NitYI6BXg
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Survey Monkey)
1. Overview of Scientific Workflows
Presented by: Scott Callaghan
Date: March 8, 2017
Youtube: https://youtu.be/JLUYnaolArQ
Slides: PDF
Survey: link (Survey Monkey)