Cyberintegrator is a scientific workflow system developed at NCSA.
A scientific workflow system is a specialized form of a workflow management system designed specifically to compose and execute a series of computational or data manipulation steps, or a workflow, in a scientific application
A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps where each step follows without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may begin. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of one or more simple or complex mechanisms.
Following is a list of goals we had in mind when developing Cyberintegrator:
- Workflows as a communication mechanism
- Make workflows documented and sharable
- Separate science from ‘logistics’
- Enable integration of independent tools
- Keep models, algorithms, data in open formats accessible from outside the scientific workflow system
- Expose workflow as a service
- The model encapsulated by a workflow can be exposed a restful service
