[kepler-users] Running Workflows in offline Mode With Kepler

Srinath Perera hperera at cs.indiana.edu
Tue Dec 20 12:49:47 PST 2005


Hi Shawn, Chad;

Thanks very much for the answer!

Just curious .. Is it a major hassle to do this with kepler 
architecturally? Does Potelmy support offline execution?

Is it possible to do something like following? (I am just thinking aloud 
:) )
1) detach the GUI and the execution
2) add a new logging mechanism that send the status messages to 
persistent notification service
3) set up a services that accept kepler workflow xml files and execute them

Thanks very much
Srinath

Shawn Bowers wrote:
> 
> Just a quick note: One way to achieve this functionality (in a very
> simple way) is to run Kepler directly at the server (e.g., using
> ptexecute) as a background process ...  This would be a "poor man's"
> version of what you are asking for.  Some limitted monitoring could be
> "built in" to the workflow or possibly using some of Ptolemy's logging
> capabilities.
> 
> Also, there are some workflows defined in Kepler (TSI, etc.)  that are
> designed to perform what you are describing.  That is, the workflow
> itself describes a control-process for the execution of distributed
> and long running (external) processes -- having special purpose
> logging, monitoring, and adaptation mechanisms (e.g., for fault
> tolerance).
> 
> -shawn
> 
> Chad Berkley wrote:
>  > Hi Srinath,
>  >
>  > This is something that has been discussed several times and a feature we
>  > definitely want.  We do not have anything like that working yet though
>  > and probably won't for a while unless someone else volunteers to work on
>  > it.  I think this is probably a post 1.0 release set of functionality.
>  >
>  > chad
>  >
>  > Srinath Perera wrote:
>  >> Hi All;
>  >>
>  >> Can we run the workflow in offline mode with kepler?
>  >>
>  >> By offline mode I mean something like
>  >>
>  >> 1) Some services in the workflow are long running
>  >> 2) The workflow is composed, saved and submitted to kepler (some 
> server)
>  >> 3) The server will run the workflow and the user can monitor the
>  >> workflow time to time?
>  >>
>  >> If yes where I can found more information about how to do it?
>  >>
>  >> Thanks
>  >> Srinath
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