ER-flow – Building an European Research Community through Interoperable Workflows and Data

The project "ER-flow" intends to set up an European Research Community to promote workflow sharing and to investigate interoperability of the scientific data in workflow sharing. It uses the results of the FP7 project Shiwa, in particular the coarse-grained workflow interoperability, which is based on the Shiwa simulation platform. ER-flow focusses on application areas that use workflows to run their experiments on a regular basis. Therefore, the project consortium includes four major research communities: Astrophysics, Computation Chemistry, Heliophysics and Life Sciences, that will be supported to run experiments with the simulation platform. Beyond these communities the project collaborates closely with the National Grid Infrastructures through EGI.eu in order to identify and involve further research communities which already use workflows or which could be perspective users. The research communities will select pilot workflows which can be used to demonstrate how to develop, use and share workflows for specific use cases. ER-flow will port these pilot workflows to the simulation platform and publish them in a workflow repository. The pilot workflows will demonstrate how to use the simulation platform. Researchers can use these workflows for their experiments and can modify it in order to create their own workflows. The pilot workflows will help to create a critical mass of workflows to enable workflow sharing inside and between research communities. The ER-flow project will collect and analyse requirements of the supported research communities towards interoperability of scientific data in the workflow domain. It will investigate existing protocols and standards that support this interoperability. The project will provide an overview of requirements, protocols and standards. It will also give recommendations on how to achieve interoperability of scientific data in the workflow domain through future research, development and standardisation activities.

Partners

University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Szamitastechnikai es Automatizalasi Kutato Intezete, Hungary
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Stichting European Grid Initiative (EGI.eu), The Netherlands
Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
University College London, United Kingdom
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy

Project Website

http://www.erflow.eu/

Project Term

09/2012 - 08/2014

Funding

EU/FP7

Publications

Richard Grunzke, Sandra Gesing, René Jäkel and Wolfgang E Nagel: Towards Generic Metadata Management in Distributed Science Gateway Infrastructures, 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014), (accepted for publication).
Richard Grunzke, Jens Krüger, Sandra Gesing, Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Alexander Hoffmann and Luis de la Garza: Improved Resilience and Usability for Science Gateway Infrastructures via Integrated Virtual Organizations, EGI Community Forum 2014, (accepted for publication).
Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Alexander Hoffmann, Luis de la Garza, Jens Krüger, Sandra Gesing, Ákos Balaskó, Peter Kacsuk, Georg Birkenheuer, Richard Grunzke, Gabor Terstyansky, Noam Weingarten and Andre Brinkmann: Quantum chemical metaworkflows in MoSGrid, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, (accepted for publication).
Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Alexander Hoffmann, Richard Grunzke and Lars Packschies, Orbital analysis of oxo and peroxo dicopper complexes via quantum chemical workflows in MoSGrid, in: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Scientific Gateways 2013 (IWSG), 2013.
Richard Grunzke, Sebastian Breuers, Sandra Gesing, Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Martin Kruse, Dirk Blunk, Luis de la Garza, Lars Packschies, Patrick Schäfer, Charlotta Schärfe, Tobias Schlemmer, Thomas Steinke, Bernd Schuller, Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn, René Jäkel, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Malcolm Atkinson and Jens Krüger, Standards-based Metadata Management for Molecular Simulations (2013), in: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2013.
Lars Packschies, Georg Birkenheuer, Dirk Blunk, Sebastian Breuers, Andre Brinkmann, Luis de la Garza, Ines Dos Santos Vieira, Gregor Fels, Sandra Gesing, Richard Grunzke, Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Oliver Kohlbacher, Jens Krüger, Martin Kruse, Ulrich Lang, Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn, Patrick Schäfer, Tobias Schlemmer, Charlotta Schärfe, Thomas Steinke, Klaus-Dieter Warzecha and Andreas Zink, The MoSGrid-e-Science Gateway: Molecular Simulations in a Distributed Computing Environment (2013), in: Journal of Cheminformatics, 5(Suppl 1):03
Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Ákos Balaskó, Georg Birkenheuer, Andre Brinkmann, Sandra Gesing, Richard Grunzke, Alexander Hoffmann, Peter Kacsuk, Jens Krüger, Lars Packschies, Gabor Terstyansky and Noam Weingarten, User-friendly workflows in quantum chemistry, in: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Scientific Gateways 2013 (IWSG), 2013.