SwarmForm is a distributed workflow management system for High Performance Computing environments. SwarmForm introduces task clustering to reduce the makespan of workflows executed using it by minimizing the overheads. SwarmForm follows a distributed architecture with independent programs controlling different functional layers in workflow management.

These instructions will get you familiar with the installation and basic functions of the SwarmForm.

Following prerequisites should be installed to run SwarmForm.

• MongoDB
• Python 3.3+
• pip

To install SwarmForm, simply type

pip install swarmform

Following is a step by step series of examples that tell you how to use the basic system functions.

Initialize a SwarmForm launchpad YAML file

sform init

Insert a SwarmFlow from file

sform add -sf <file path>

Get SwarmFlow from SwarmPad

sform get_sf -id <SwarmFlow ID>

Cluster the fireworks in the SwarmFlow and save the new SwarmFlow to the database

sform cluster -sf <SwarmFlow ID>

Reset and re-initialize the SwarmForm database

sform reset

• Python
• FireWorks

• Kalana Dananjaya - https://github.com/KalanaDananjaya
• Ayesh Weerasinghe - https://github.com/AyeshW
• Randika Jayasekara - https://github.com/rpjayasekara

• MIT license
• Copyright 2020 © SwarmForm.