Paper Info
Title
Using High-Level Petri Nets for Hierarchical Grid Workflows
Abstract
An increasingly popular application programming model for Grids is to deploy often-used functionalities as remote services on high-performance hosts, following the principles of a service-oriented architecture. Complex applications are created by using several services and specifying a workflow between them. We discuss how workflows of Grid applications can be described easily as High-Level Petri Nets (HLPN), in order to orchestrate and execute distributed applications on the Grid automatically. In order to simplify the handling of complex and large-scale workflows, we introduce hierarchical Grid workflows, making use of the Petri Net refinement paradigm that allows to represent sub-workflows by single graph elements. We show how a complex application, the Barnes-Hut algorithm for N-Body simulation can be expressed as a hierarchical HLPN, using our platform-independent, XML-based Grid Workflow Description Language (GWorkflowDL). We discuss how the GWorkflowDL can be adapted to current Grid technologies, in particular to Java/RMI and the recent WSRF framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2006.149
eScience
Keywords
Field
DocType
grid application,xml-based grid workflow description,high-level petri nets,large-scale workflows,barnes-hut algorithm,hierarchical hlpn,complex application,popular application programming model,current grid technology,hierarchical grid workflows,computational modeling,petri net,functional programming,java,middleware,service oriented architecture,web services,programming model,petri nets,grid computing,distributed application
Middleware,Grid computing,Petri net,Programming paradigm,XML,Computer science,Workflow,Service-oriented architecture,Grid,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2734-5
5
0.65
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Alt142243.34
Sergei Gorlatch2972136.47
Andreas Hoheisel326518.62
Hans-Werner Pohl4302.75