News
March, 2023: Dan gave a talk at SIAM CSE23 "How RSE Community Identity Leads to Improved Research Software Practices"
November, 2022: UChicago published an article about Parsl's sustainability focus
November, 2022: Parsl was awarded new funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initative to support sustainability in extreme scale biomedicine.
November 16, 2022: Dan talked about Parsl sustainability at SC22, in the BOF "Expanding the Impact of Scientific Software Engineering in HPC.
September, 2022: Parsl was recieved new awards (UChicago and UIUC) from NSF's CSSI program to support sustainability.
June 2022: Parsl is part of a tutorial on next-generation workflows at PEARC 2022.
June 2022: Kyle spoke at the NREL Connections Seminar on Scalable Scientific Computing with funcX and Parsl.
May 2022: Parsl was presented in the ISC tutorial "Developing Robust and Scalable Next Generation Workflows Applications and Systems".
May 2022: Kyle presented at the HEP Software & Computing Round Table.
May 2022: Parsl was mentioned in the National Academies report on Automated Research Workflows For Accelerated Discovery: Closing the Knowledge Discovery Loop (2022).
May 2022: Kyle Chard gave a talk in the Software & Computing Round Table.
April 2022: Congratulations to Mike Wilde and the Parallel Works team on receiving FLC Excellence in Technology Transfer Award.
February 2022: We have started a new biweekly open development meeting. Join us every second Thursday at noon central (details in Slack).
February 2022: Daniel S. Katz gave a talk on "Parsl & funcX: Build and test challenges" in a SIAM PP22 panel.
December 2021: Congratulations to Mike Wilde and the Parallel Works team on winning an R&100 award/a>.
September 2021: Parsl is part of a new DSI-funded project on sustainable agriculture.
July 2021: Kyle Chard gave a talk on "Scalable Scientific Computing with funcX and Parsl" at Victoria University of Wellington.
April 26, 2021: Parsl 1.1.0 released.
April 13, 2021: The Parsl team will be presenting at the Exascale Computing Project annual meeting in the workflows breakout on April 17.
April 7, 2021: Join the second WorkflowsRI/ExaWorks community summit focused on advancing the state-of-the-art of scientific workflows management systems research and development
March 4, 2021: A talk that includes discusion about the sustainability of Parsl was presented at SIAM CSE21: R. Ramnath, D. S. Katz, "Case Studies in Scientific Software Sustainability," 2021.
January 13, 2021: Join the first "WorkflowsRI/ExaWorks community summit
October 16, 2020: Dan and Kunkun Tang gave a seminar on Parsl and Composite modeling with UQ / Experience with Parsl in the weekly seminar series for the Center for Exascale-enabled Scramjet Design (CEESD) project
October 16, 2020: Dan presented on Parsl: Pervasive Parallel Programming in Python & funcX: A Federated Function Serving Fabric for Science as a guest lecture for LaTech CSC 452/552 & CYEN 405
October 1, 2020: The new DOE-funded Center for Exascale-enabled Scramjet Design (CEESD) includes support for Parsl
September 29, 2020: Dan presented Parsl in a talk on Research Software Sustainability at the Future Trends in Nuclear Physics Computing Workshop
September 10, 2020: Dan discussed "A common workflow registry of compute endpoints and applications" for Parsl and other systems at the 11th Joint Lab for Exascale Computing (JLESC) Workshop
July 21, 2020: Dan and Kyle (with Rosa Badia and Jorge Ejarque) presented "A common workflow registry of compute endpoints and applications" (whitepaper, video discussion) for Parsl and other systems at the 2020 Collegeville Workshop on Scientific Software
June 11, 2020: Parsl 1.0.0 released.
May 27, 2020: Dan presented Parsl in a webinar on Research Software Sustainability for the Australia Research Data Commons (ARDC)
May 22, 2020: Parsl used to compute features for 4.2 billion small molecules to help screen COVID-19 drug candidates.
May 7, 2020: Dan presented Parsl as part of his webinar on Research Software Sustainability for the NIH's Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI)
May 1, 2020: FuncX project (built on Parsl) recieves funding from NSF CSSI.
May 1, 2020: Parsl is being used by DOE researchers to tackle COVID-19
March 10, 2020: Parsl presented at the ECP Industry Deep Dive workshop
Jan 22, 2020: Parsl presented at the Chicago PyData meetup.
Jan 16, 2020: Dan presented Parsl as part of his talk on "Research Software Sustainability" at the monthly NITRD HEC IWG meeting
November 21, 2019: Parsl presented at the Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing on SC'2019.
November 4, 2019: Dan presented Parsl at Unicamp's Center for Computing in Engineering & Sciences' Workshop VI
October 15, 2019: Parsl 0.9.0 released.
October 3-4, 2019: We held our first annual ParslFest user meeting.
September 20, 2019: Dan presented Parsl at the University of Manchester
August 15, 2019: Dan Katz discusses Parsl as part of his talk "Better Software, Better Careers, Better Research" at Sandia
July 31, 2019: Parsl paper Scalable Parallel Programming in Python with Parsl" presented Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2019
June 26, 2019: Parsl paper was selected as a best paper finalist at HPDC 2019.
June 26, 2019: Parsl: Pervasive Parallel Programming in Python presented at HPDC 2019.
June 13, 2019: Parsl 0.8.0 released.
April 26, 2019: Dan Katz presented Parsl at the Jupyter Community Workshop for Scientific User Facilities and High-Performance Computing
April 26, 2019: Parsl presented at the Enabling Multi-Messenger Astrophysics in the Big Data Era Workshop.
March 19, 2019: Parsl presented at the DOE Workflow Workshop and Hackathon.
March 14, 2019: Parsl 0.7.2 released.
March 13, 2019: Rick Wagner presented Managing Large-Scale Cosmology Simulations with Parsl and Singularity at the Singularity User Group Meeting
February 25, 2019: "Parsl: A Python-based Parallel Scripting Library," poster presented at SIAM CSE19.
January 25, 2019: Parsl participated in the SciMMA Community planning for Scalable Cyberinfrastructure to support Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.
January 18, 2019: Parsl 0.7.1 released.
December 11, 2018: Parsl participated in the BioExcel/MolSSI Workshop on Workflows in Biomolecular Simulations .
November 11, 2018: Connor Pigg presented a poster about monitoring in Parsl in the SC18 Student Research Competition.
October 5, 2018: Parsl lightning talk at CASC Fall 2018 Meeting/a>.
August 23, 2018: Ian Foster's presentation on collaborative science with Juypter and Globus at JupyterCon 2018 highlights Parsl’s ability to scale science applications.
August 16, 2018: New article describing how researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are using machine learning and Parsl to accelerate science.
July 14, 2018: Parsl 0.6.1 version released with class-based configuration, implicit data staging, real-time usage tracking, and more.
July 17, 2018: Parsl presentation at workshop on Geospatial Use Cases and Core Technical Capabilities.
July 13, 2018: Parsl: Enabling Scalable Interactive Computing in Python presentation at SciPy 2018.
July 9, 2018: Parsl presentation at CHEP 2018 using Parsl for HEP.
June 30, 2018: Parsl presentation and tutorial at workshop on Data Visualization and Exploration in the LSST Era
June 11, 2018: Parsl poster accepted at Third RSE Conference (RSE 2018)
May 23, 2018: Parsl seminar at Notre Dame.
April 18, 2018: "Parsl: Scalable Parallel Scripting in Python" presented at IWSG 2018.
April 18, 2018: Parsl abstract accepted for presentation at SciPy2018.
April 16, 2018: Parsl 0.5.0 version released with Globus transfers, Docker containers, automatic checkpointing, and more.
March 15, 2018: Catch our presentation about Parsl for HEP workflows using containers at CHEP 2018
February 5, 2018: Parsl 0.4.0 version released with automatic elasticity, multi-site support, and caching.
February 2, 2018: Parsl presentation at UIUC/NCSA in room 1040.
November 22, 2017: Parsl and Swift included in the Computation Institute overview of SC17
November 17, 2017: NCSA wins top supercomputing achievement and a best use of HPC in 2017 HPCWire Editors' Choice Awards.
September 1, 2017: We are actively looking for developers, postdocs, and students to help develop Parsl. Join our team.
August 29, 2017: Extended abstract about Parsl published on Zenodo: Introducing Parsl: A Python Parallel Scripting Library
August 20, 2017: Paper using Parsl accepted for publication. O. Sode and J. N. Cherry, “Development of a flexible-monomer two-body carbon dioxide potential and its application to clusters up to (CO2)13,” J. Comput. Chem.
June 19, 2017: Parsl Poster presented at the Second Annual Crops in silico syposium and workshop
June 14, 2017: Software Sustainability Institute blog about Parsl and Swift’s use in the ArcticDEM project
June 1, 2016: NSF Awarded funding to develop a workflow ecosystem: SI2-SSI: Swift/E: Integrating Parallel Scripted Workflow into the Scientific Software Ecosystem