Computation and Data-Driven Discovery
Center for Sustaining Workflows and Application Services (SWAS)
The Center for Sustaining Workflows and Application Services (SWAS) brings together academia, national laboratories, and industry to create a sustainable software ecosystem supporting the myriad software and services used in workflows, as well as the workflow orchestration software itself. SWAS’ objective is to identify critical software and develop a plan for sustaining this software that is tailored to the needs of this unique software ecosystem. SWAS will advance and sustain workflows and application services development with entrusted validation and verification capabilities (via a community-endorsed sustainability model), so these systems and application services can provide the functionality and robustness required by DOE science users.
SWAS primary communities to engage with include Workflow Systems, Data Management Frameworks, Visualization Frameworks, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) Tools (used in modern workflows), and Application services.
Target Software
SWAS welcomes engagements with software teams and communities related to workflows and application services. We emphasize that “workflows” in this context represents the broad set of software and services users need to configure, orchestrate, and operate modern analysis, modeling, and simulation campaigns.
Primary Stakeholder Communities
- Workflows and application services that focus on general and specific domains; non-expert and expert users; and offer configuration-based interfaces, graphical interfaces, domain-specific languages, or programming language libraries or application programming interfaces.
- Science and engineering communities seeking to understand their current, imminent, and future workflow needs and challenges and provide guidance for application, infrastructure, and software development. These communities are the groups most affected by the uncertain workflows landscape and face the crucial need for robust and sustainable workflows software.
- Computing centers and facilities operators (both public and private) to support the use and deployment of workflow and application services and provide training to foster proper adoption of workflow tools that can offer pathways for sustainability.
