WfCommons

WfCommons is a community framework for enabling scientific workflow research and development. This Python package provides a collection of tools for:

• Analyzing traces of actual workflow executions;
• Producing recipes structures for creating workflow recipes for workflow generation; and
• Generating synthetic realistic workflow traces.

The WfCommons conceptual architecture.

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Support

The source code for this WfCommons’s Python package is available on GitHub. Our preferred channel to report a bug or request a feature is via WfCommons’s Github Issues Track.

You can also reach the WfCommons team via our support email: support@wfcommons.org.

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Quickstart

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Installation using pip
  • Retrieving the latest unstable version

User Guide

• The WfCommons Project
  • The WfCommons JSON Format
• Parsing Workflow Execution Logs
  • Makeflow
  • Pegasus WMS
• Analyzing Traces
  • Workflow Execution Traces
  • The Trace Analyzer
  • Examples
• Generating Workflows
  • Workflow Recipes
  • The Workflow Generator
  • Examples

API Reference

• User API Reference
• Developer API Reference