Workflow management system based on service oriented components for grid applications

Abstract

To efficiently develop and deploy parallel and distributed Grid applications, we have developed the Workflow based grid portal for problem Solving Environment(WISE). However, the Grid technology has become standardized related to Web-services for Service-oriented architecture and the workflow engine of WISE is insufficient to meet the requirements of a service-oriented environment. Therefore, we present a new workflow management system, called the Workflow management system based on Service-oriented components for Grid Applications(WSGA). It provides an efficient execution of programs for computational intensive problems using advanced patterns, dynamic resource allocation, pattern oriented resource allocation, and configures Web-service as an activity of workflow in Grid computing environment. In this paper, we propose the WSGA architecture design based on service-oriented components, and functions for using Web-services and increasing system performance. Also, we show an implementation method, and report the system performance evaluation of the WSGA architecture design. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.