Applying BPEL to Chemical Research on Grid

Chemical research is an exploring and improving process to obtain the preferable experiment result. The complex and frequently changing research in traditional way is time-consuming, expending energy and repetitive work. The emergence of scientific workflow congregating orchestrating distributed resources and scientific instruments on the Grid environment possibly solves these problems in chemical research by automating experiment process. BPEL as the de-facto workflow language standard provides the standardized environment to perform chemical research on scientific workflow by utilizing distributed resources on Grid in parallel. This paper discusses requirements of chemical research of scientific workflow on Grid and analyses the features of BPEL. The features conduce to the workflow fulfilling the optimizing chemical experiment effectively by satisfying the scalability and reliability requirements of chemical research on scientific workflows. Finally, the case study demonstrates feasibility of BPEL applied on chemical research, which proves that BPEL is exactly suitable for chemical research on Grid.

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