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Agentic AI for experiments and data analyses at the APS
Ming Du, Xiangyu Yin (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Talks, workshops, and gatherings from workflow practitioners worldwide.
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WISDOM 2026
2nd Workshop on Workflows, Intelligent Scientific Data, and Optimization for Automated Management
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Workflow innovation in action
Recordings from the talk series, connecting researchers, developers, and practitioners shaping the future of workflows.
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Explore the workflows ecosystem
Curated, community-maintained references for finding a system, reusing a pipeline, and speaking a shared language.
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Workflow systems
Open-source engines profiled with language, release, and activity, plus standardized terminology characteristics.
Browse systems 5Workflow registries
Where the community publishes and discovers ready-to-run pipelines you can adapt instead of rebuilding.
Find a registry —Terminology
A shared vocabulary for describing and comparing workflow systems, maintained by the terminology working group.
Read the terminology 4Research frameworks
Larger research efforts and infrastructures building on and around scientific workflow technology.
See frameworks 2Education & training
Courseware and guides for teaching and learning workflow concepts, from first principles to practice.
Start learning 27Countries represented
319 members across 27 countries — researchers, developers, and facility staff.
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Workflow systems
Open-source systems described by their own teams, refreshed automatically from their repositories.
AiiDA
A workflow manager for computational science with a strong focus on provenance, performance and extensibility.
Swift/T
An MPI-based workflow system
Geoweaver
a lightweight workflow software to easily orchestrate pipelines from Python and shell scripts and preserve history of...
Snakemake
This is the development home of the workflow management system Snakemake. For general information, see
Parsl
Productive parallel programming in Python
Ewoks
Meta-workflow system for scientific data processing and expert systems
TaskVine
An execution system for large scale data intensive dynamic workflows.
Makeflow
Makeflow is a workflow system for parallel and distributed computing that uses a language very similar to Make.
Where the work happens
Working groups
Open groups tackling a specific problem together. Anyone can join — most of the work happens in the open.
Active
15 members
FAIR Computational Workflows
Define FAIR principles for computational workflows that consider the complex lifecycle from specification to execution and data products
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Establishing
4 members
Quantum-Classical Workflows Group
Develop hybrid workflows and middleware capable of reconciling quantum and classical systems and software stacks.
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Active
26 members
Scientific Workflow Systems Terminology
Develop and maintain a standardized terminology that enables researchers to systematically characterize, compare, and select workflow management systems based on ...
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Establishing
4 members
WfBG: Workflow Benchmarking Group
Define methodology to collect meaningful performance metrics; share exemplar workflows written in multiple workflow languages
Group detailsPublished outcomes
Reports & publications
Community summits and studies turned into citable, openly available reports.
February 2026 · arXiv
Towards Advancing Research with Workflows
A perspective from the Workflows Community Summit -- Amsterdam, 2025
10.48550/arXiv.2602.05131
October 2024 · Zenodo
Workflows Community Summit 2024
Future Trends and Challenges in Scientific Workflows
10.5281/zenodo.13844759
March 2023 · Zenodo
Workflows Community Summit
A Roadmap Revolution
10.5281/zenodo.7750669Open to everyone
Ways to contribute
The initiative is volunteer-driven. Every catalog, group, and talk on this site came from someone taking one of these steps.
- Add your workflow systemGet it profiled in the systems catalog, refreshed automatically from your repository
- Join a working groupShape benchmarking, FAIR workflows, quantum-classical, or terminology
- Give a community talkPresent your system or research in the monthly virtual series
- Contribute a registryHelp others discover pipelines that already exist
- List a research frameworkShare a project building on workflow technology
- Become a memberJoin 319 people across 27 countries