2021 – Pegasus WMS

Astronomical Image Processing at Scale With Pegasus and Montage: Leveraging the OSG

by Mats Rynge on November 12, 2021 with No Comments

Developers of the Montage toolkit, Bruce Berriman and John Good of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology, have presented in the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) 2021 conference on how you can utilize Pegasus to build and run Montage pipelines on the OSG to generate massive mosaics of the sky. Take a look at what they have done in their demo and try it out for yourself!

Meet us @ SC21

by cdavis on November 9, 2021 with No Comments

The Pegasus (SciTech) group will be actively participating in several events and presenting talks in workshops, panels, and exhibitors booths at SC121. Find below a list of events where you can meet our team. We look forward to seeing you in St. Louis, MO! Monday, November 15th: 16th Workshop on … Read More

CrisisFlow: Multimodal Representation Learning Workflow for Crisis Computing

by Mats Rynge on October 27, 2021 with No Comments

USC computer science students, Patrycja Krawczuk (PhD) and Shubham Nagarkar (MS), share how they have used the Pegasus Workflow Management system to develop CrisisFlow, a computational workflow that can aid in disaster relief efforts by accurately classifying multimodal social media posts relating to crisis events.

Pegasus 5.0.1 Released

by Karan Vahi on October 7, 2021 with No Comments

We are happy to announce the release of Pegasus 5.0.1, which is a minor bug fix release for Pegasus 5.0. We invite our users to give it a try. The release features improvements to the Pegasus Python API including ability to visualize statically the abstract and generated executable workflows. It also has … Read More

Scitech at eScience

by cdavis on September 21, 2021 with No Comments

The Pegasus (SciTech) group will be actively participating in several events and presenting talks in workshops, posters, and presenting papers at eScience 2021. Find below a list of events where you can meet our team. We look forward to seeing you! … Monday, September 20th: PRESENTATION: Pegasus 5.0 Workflows Speakers: Karan … Read More

2021 SciTech and Friends Research Symposium

by Mats Rynge on July 2, 2021 with No Comments

The Science Automation Technologies Research Group (SciTech) at the USC Information Sciences Institute aims to empower the scientific community by conducting research and software development in the area of automation of scientific computing, providing tools such as workflow management systems like Pegasus. As a result, scientists can focus on their … Read More

Predicting Flash Floods in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Using Pegasus

by cdavis on May 11, 2021 with No Comments

Take a look at how Pegasus has been used to predict flash floods in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

PUG 2021 Followup

by Mats Rynge on March 30, 2021 with No Comments

PUG 2021 was a success! We had great user community engagement throughout the two-day event via Zoom and Slack. Thank you to all those who gave presentations and attended – you have all contributed to the improving Pegasus in more ways than one. In case you missed a session or … Read More

Astronomical Image Processing in the Cloud

by cdavis on March 17, 2021 with No Comments

Author: Dino Bektešević, University of Washington, LSST/Rubin Observatory project Overview In 2020 the Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology institute (DIRAC), University of Washington (WA) Astronomy Department, Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) joined forces to develop a proof-of-concept (PoC) leveraging cloud resources … Read More

Pegasus and AtlanticWave-SDX Help Orchestrating Science Applications

by cdavis on March 8, 2021 with No Comments

Many new technologies and new paradigms are emerging in the research community to support science workflows, including the use of Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs), distributed compute and data infrastructure, research testbeds, and new inter-domain federated orchestrators. Workflow management systems (WMS), like Pegasus, are evolving to be more resource aware in … Read More

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