Floability | The Cooperative Computing Lab

The Floability Project is an NSF funded research project to enable the rapid and portable deployment of notebooks expressing complex scientific workflows across a wide range of cyberinfrastructure. The key technical challenge is that workflows are incomplete: the code by itself cannot be moved between facilities without accurately capturing the software dependencies, required datasets, and capabilities of the underlying cluster hardware. Our research team at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Illinois is developing solutions to discover, express, and deploy the complete set of dependencies needed for complex scientific workflows.

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Backpacks for Notebooks: Enabling Containerized Notebook Workflows in Distributed Environments

Md Saiful Islam, Talha Azaz, Raza Ahmad, A D M Shahadat Hossain, Furqan Baig, Shaowen Wang, Kevin Lannon, Tanu Malik, and Douglas Thain

In IEEE Conference on eScience, 2025

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{floability-escience-2025,
  author = {Islam, Md Saiful and Azaz, Talha and Ahmad, Raza and Hossain, A D M Shahadat and Baig, Furqan and Wang, Shaowen and Lannon, Kevin and Malik, Tanu and Thain, Douglas},
  title = {{Backpacks for Notebooks: Enabling Containerized Notebook Workflows in Distributed Environments}},
  booktitle = {{IEEE Conference on eScience}},
  pages = {9},
  year = {2025},
  cclpaperid = {1003},
  keywords = {floability}
}