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Grant for Workflow Software

University of California, Davis (01/16/08) Fell, Andy

University of California Davis, UC Santa Barbara, and UC San Diego have received a $1.7 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop tools to help scientists automate scientific data management and analysis workflows. The project will develop the Kepler/CORE (Comprehensive, Open, Reliable, and Extensible Scientific Workflow Infrastructure), which will allow scientists in all fields to perform desktop data analysis, remote execution monitoring, and massive data management. UC Davis computer science professor Bertram Ludaescher says Kepler grew out of a grassroots collaboration between NSF and the U.S. Energy Department research projects based on a UC Berkeley project and system called PTOLEMY II. "In the last few years, Kepler has been used and extended in various ways, but different projects tend to pull the system in different directions," says Ludaescher, the principal investigator on the grant. The new project will develop a software core that facilitates independent extensions to support wider adoption of the system, Ludaescher says. He says Kepler uses a simple, intuitive graphical interface that enables users to quickly create a workflow that suits their needs, without having to understand all of the computer code.

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