Project architecture

The simExplorer project is divided into 8 packages belonging to the following 5 categories:

• Developement (WP1, WP2, WP3)
• Technical ressource (WP6)
• Connection with users compliances (WP4, WP5)
• Technology watch (WP7)
• Global management (WP0)

WP0: Project Management

Global coordination, communication, good practices and standardization. Mathieu Leclaire

• Coordination (meeting coordination, meeting reports)
• Standardization of the conception (use cases, UML conception)
• Standardization of the documentation
• Communication

WP0 activities

WP1 Core

Core developpement. Romain Reuillon

• Implementation of a generic workflow execution engine
• Support various applicative scopes (stochastic simulations distribution, viability, genetic algorithms, image processing ?...)
• Automatic workflow execution optimization (IDM, scheduling algorithm)
• Persitance of workflow execution
• Integration of third party software, how to run (requirements, virtualization?) and reuse third party software pieces (libraries)
• Interface with existing workflow systems (taverna) and specifications (mexico)?

WP1 activities

WP2 GUI

Graphical implementation of use case requirements. Nicolas Dumoulin

• Defining an API with the Core and the IS
• Designing an ergonomic prototype
• Developping and integrating the main following use cases:
  • Creation, modification, importation of workflows and of all the constitutive components of a Worflow (Task, Capsule, Transition, ...)
  • Worflow control management
  • Creation and configuration of dynamical metadata structures
  • Creation/Feeding of metadata in the IS context
  • Association a metadata to an object
  • Versionning objects and metadata

WP2 activities

WP3 Information System

Managing multilevel, generic metadata. Ensure traceabilty of any kind of object including metadata. Nicolas Dumoulin

• Metadata management:
  • Building dynamical metadata structures.
  • Feeding metadata with content.
  • Association of metadata to any kind of Worflow objects.
• Traceability of:
  • Metadata including three levels of tracking:
    • Business metadata: allows the end users to define and manipulate their own buisness meta-data and associate them with results.
    • Metadata of the Worflow structure: data on the experiment definitions.
    • Worflow execution metadata: full traceability at the execution (keeping the full context of an execution).
  • Any kind of Worflow object
• Ensure local and remote versionning.

WP3 activities

WP4 Model Integration

Testing the plateform on new applicative scopes. Mathieu Leclaire

• Working in cooperation with scientific partners for integration of their algorithms in the platform
• Giving a feedback about new identified lacks and propose, if any, new but generic use cases
• Appending the study in a catalog to trace the new technological progress

WP4 activities

WP5 Community

Gathering people in communities, sharing extra community experiences. Mathieu Leclaire

• Sharing algoritms, workflows
• Communication on the technologies
• Administration of a multi-community forum (debug, disscussion about technics, workflow, business)

WP5 activities

WP6 Project Tools

Dealing with the technical issues. Nicolas Dumoulin

• Automatic generation of nightly snapshots
• Automatic mechanisms to run unit tests
• SVN server adminitration
• TRAC server administration

WP6 activities

WP7 Design of Experiments

State of the art in the statistics field. Thierry Faure

• New DoE integration
• Prospecting for existing libraries and for statistical analysis and statistical tools.

WP7 activities

Project Calendar

Previsionnal calendar until end of the August 2010: