Fault-tolerant behavior in state-of-the-art grid workflow management systems
Kassian Plankensteiner, Radu Prodan, Thomas Fahringer, Attila Bela Kertesz, Péter Kacsuk · SZTAKI Publication Repository (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) · 2007
While the workflow paradigm, emerged from the field of business processes, has been proven to be the most successful paradigm for creating scientific applications for execution also on Grid infrastructures, most of the current Grid workflow management systems still cannot deliver the quality, robustness and reliability that are needed for widespread acceptance as tools used on a day-to-day basis for scientists from a multitude of scientific fields.This paper introduces the current state of the art in fault tolerance techniques for Grid workflow systems.The examined categories and the summary of current solutions reveal future directions in this area and help to guide research towards open issues.This research work is carried out under the FP6 Network of Excellence CoreGRID