Amazon's Simple Workflow and Software Defined Networks could transform cyber-infrastructure

[It is very exciting to see Amazon’s new simple Workflow service. Workflow, when combined with software defined networks, could transform the future of cyber-infrastructure or eInfrastructure.
Large scale instruments could forward their data sets and/or streams to Amazon for processing over specially configured networks designed to link together databases, Amazon web services, visualization engines and off site storage. A great example is how NASA is using Amazon’s Simple Workflow for processing images from the Mars landers. This is the fulfillment of the promise of UCLP – to build what we called “Articulated Private Networks” where every network element, computation, node, instrument was represented as a web service which could composed into a end to end network solution using BPEL workflows by the end user. This new Amazon service gives you the ability to build and run distributed, fault-tolerant applications with MapReduce and Hadoop that span multiple systems (cloud-based, on-premise, or both) which further enables deployment of zero carbon networks and clouds such as Greenstar or Hewlett-Packard GreenCloud. – BSA]

Amazon queues up new workflow service
http://gigaom.com/cloud/amazon-queues-up-new-workflow-service/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gigaom

Amazon’s Simple Workflow
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/02/amazon-simple-workflow-cloud-based-workflow-management.html

NASA Case study using Amazing Simple Workflow
http://aws.amazon.com/swf/testimonials/swfnasa/

Articulated Private Networks with UCLP
http://tnc2007.terena.org/programme/presentations/showcac6.html
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