🚨 Only 10 days until Globus Compute + ParslFest 2025!

Join us in-person or online on August 28–29 for our seventh annual community gathering. We aim to bring together researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts worldwide to discuss their experiences using and developing Parsl and Globus Compute.

More details + registration here: https://bit.ly/gcpf2025

📣 Registration for Globus Compute + ParslFest is now open!

Join us in-person or online on August 28–29 for our seventh annual community gathering. We aim to bring together researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts worldwide to discuss their experiences using and developing Parsl and Globus Compute.

Please consider signing up for a lightning talk when you register. More details here: https://bit.ly/gcpf2025

💡Join us tomorrow (July 8th) @ 11 a.m. CST via Zoom for next open community call! NCSA Senior Research Software Engineer Douglas Friedel will be giving a talk on “Tracking File Provenance with Parsl.”

Here, he’ll discuss recent work to implement file provenance tracking and dynamic file lists. Check out https://github.com/Parsl/parsl/pull/3712 and https://github.com/Parsl/parsl/pull/3754 for the related pull requests.

Join Parsl Project Slack to gain access to our meeting links: https://bit.ly/join-parsl-slack

🚨 New Parsl blog post and upcoming talk by @benc!

#Python is moving away from fork-without-exec, and Parsl is following suit. This change will affect end users, and Ben discusses how and why in this new blog post.

Ben will also give a talk about this topic via Zoom at our next open community call on March 4 at 11 a.m. CST. Join us to learn more!

💡 Read Ben's new blog post here: https://parsl-project.org/2025/02/26/main-protection.html

🔗 Join the Parsl Slack workspace today to access the meeting link: https://bit.ly/join-parsl-slack

Join us tomorrow, February 18, at 11 a.m. CST via Zoom for our next open community call! Logan Ward, a computational scientist from Argonne National Laboratory, will discuss his work on reordering our user guide and how fellow Parsl users can provide feedback and contribute to this effort.

Stop by to learn more, troubleshoot issues, share updates, and connect with the community! The Zoom link will be posted in Slack – join our workspace today: https://bit.ly/join-parsl-slack

We're excited to continue on our path toward sustainability by joining the @NumFOCUS ecosystem as a fiscally sponsored project. NumFOCUS' dedication to promoting #openscience and #opencode enables us to strengthen our sustainability, governance, and community participation.

Learn more about this new partnership from NCSA: https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/a-new-community-and-sustainability-path-for-parsl/

📣 Join us tomorrow (Dec. 10) at 11 a.m. CST via Zoom for our last community call of the year! @benc will give a talk on “Visualizing Parsl Performance Interactions Using R.” Ben wanted to understand how different performance tweaks for Parsl interact with each other and learn how to use R, so he made an experimental dataset of 15,000 Parsl runs and plotted some graphs.

The Zoom link will be posted in our general Slack channel – join our workspace today for access: https://bit.ly/join-parsl-slack

Advancements in high-throughput genomic tech have generated vast amounts of sequencing data, requiring standardized processing. The Genomic Data Commons was established for this purpose, but its pipeline lacks scalability and reproducibility. A new scalable workflow using Parsl was developed to harmonize local DNA sequencing with GDC data, balancing cost and accuracy in cancer research while ensuring reproducible genome analyses.

Learn more from Akila Ravihansa Perera: https://youtu.be/qiEkhTQeLhU?si=3Qk3FN5dJQICgrPF

📣 We're excited to share that Parsl is now a NumFOCUS-sponsored project! Joining @NumFOCUS aligns with our commitment to fostering open practices in research and scientific computing. By becoming part of the NumFOCUS community, we aim to share insights on community building, sustainability, and code development while collaborating to accelerate research, discovery, and innovation across various disciplines.

Read more here: https://numfocus.medium.com/parsl-joins-numfocus-as-a-sponsored-project-862dc767a235

💡 Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 15 @ 11 a.m. (CDT) for our next virtual open community call! @benc will give a talk about “Billion Task Parsl.” This talk is intended to stimulate imaginings of what Parsl might look like in future years if running a Billion Tasks were a goal.

Please feel free to stop by anytime to share project progress, discuss challenges, troubleshoot issues, and more. The meeting Zoom link will be shared in Parsl-Project Slack – join our workspace today: https://bit.ly/join-parsl-slack