Workflow Support for Advanced Grid-Enabled Computing

The Geodise project brings computer scientists and engineer’s skills together to build up a serviceoriented computing environment for engineers to perform complicated computations in a distributed system. The workflow tool is a front GUI to provide a full life cycle of workflow functions for Gridenabled computing. The full life cycle of workflow functions have been enhanced based our initial research and development. The life cycle starts with a composition of a workflow, followed by an instantiation of the workflow, further processing to validate the workflow, and it finally ends with a submission of the workflow to a Grid-enabled Matlab enactment engine. Further more, the workflow tool has the following features: debugging, and run-time monitoring and steering. The workflow tool integrates computation, database, knowledge, and Grid technologies to share hardware, software and data resources within and across boundaries of organisations.