Floability 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 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.
Related Publications
Declare, Resolve, Reuse: A Portable Data Layer for Notebook Workflows Across HPC Systems
Md Saiful Islam, Reyer Band, Jin Zhou, Tanu Malik, Kevin Lannon, and Douglas Thain
@inproceedings{floability-escience-2026,author={Islam, Md Saiful and Band, Reyer and Zhou, Jin and Malik, Tanu and Lannon, Kevin and Thain, Douglas},title={{Declare, Resolve, Reuse: A Portable Data Layer for Notebook Workflows Across HPC Systems}},booktitle={{IEEE Conference on eScience}},pages={9},year={2026},cclpaperid={1009},keywords={floability}}
Backpacks for Notebooks: Enabling Containerized Notebook Workflows in Distributed Environments
Md Saiful Islam, Talha Azaz, Raza Ahmad, A S M Shahadat Hossain, Furqan Baig, Shaowen Wang, Kevin Lannon, Tanu Malik, and Douglas Thain
@inproceedings{floability-escience-2025,author={Islam, Md Saiful and Azaz, Talha and Ahmad, Raza and Hossain, A S 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}}
