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Democratizing Calculations in the Cloud (308087)

Presentation

*Andrew Glenn Shewmaker, OpenEye Scientific 

Keywords: cloud,collaboration,workflow,scheduling

While there are some interesting solutions for running calculations in the cloud, none delivered everything we wanted.

• Ease of use
• Scalability and reliability
• Cost awareness
• Other features
• collaboration
• pipelined workflows
• cyclic workflows
• heterogeneous software environments
• ...

Our system is made up of Floe, a Python workflow framework, and Orion, a cloud-based workflow runtime and user interface leveraging many technologies, including Django, containers, and AWS.