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StreamFlow Model

The StreamFlow framework is a container-native Workflow Management System written in Python 3 and based on the Common Workflow Language (CWL) standard. Developed and maintained by the Alpha research group at Università di Torino (UniTO), it has been designed around two main principles:

  • Allowing the execution of tasks in multi-container environments, in order to support concurrent execution of multiple communicating tasks in a multi-agent ecosystem
  • Relaxing the requirement of a single shared data space, in order to allow for hybrid workflow executions on top of multi-cloud or hybrid cloud/HPC infrastructures.

StreamFlow source code is available on GitHub under the LGPLv3 license. Moreover, a Python package is downloadable from PyPI and Docker containers can be found on Docker Hub.

If you want to cite StreamFlow, please refer to this article:

I. Colonnelli, B. Cantalupo, I. Merelli and M. Aldinucci, “StreamFlow: cross-breeding cloud with HPC,” in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 9, iss. 4, p. 1723-1737, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TETC.2020.3019202.