Jun 2 – 6, 2025
Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus
America/Chicago timezone

Wrangling Complex Notebook Workflows with Floability

Jun 4, 2025, 11:40 AM
20m
Howard Auditorium (Fluno Center)

Howard Auditorium

Fluno Center

Speaker

Douglas Thain (University of Notre Dame)

Description

Computational notebooks have become a critical tool of scientific discovery, by wrapping together code, results, and visualization into a common package. However, moving complex notebooks between different facilities is not so easy: complex workflows require precise software stacks, access to large data, and large backend computational resources. The Floability project aims to connect these two worlds, making it possible to specify, share, and execute computational workflows through the familiar notebook interface. This talk will introduce the Floability concept of a workflow "backpack" and demonstrate applications in high energy physics, machine learning, and geosciences.

Primary authors

Douglas Thain (University of Notre Dame) Kevin Lannon (University of Notre Dame) Shaowen Wang (University of Illinois) Tanu Malik (University of Missouri)

Presentation materials