FlowTracer™ is a versatile and powerful workflow platform. FlowTracer™ allows its users to describe workflows in a simple, readable, and efficient format. The tool captures the workflow, identifying all inputs and outputs, and identifies dependencies between them. FlowTracer™ manages the workflow in its entirety, providing powerful visualization, debugging, and controlling capabilities. Drive workflows with the click of a mouse, or via the command-line interface. Features include:

• Powerful GUI with dependency graph visulation capabilities and workflow controls
• Describe flows in a format that is easily readable and maintainable, unlike makefiles
• Versatile environment management mechanism for setting up projects and tools for workflows
• Interfaces with job schedulers, such as our NetworkComputer and Platform Computing's LSF
• Automatically capitalizes upon parallelism opportunities
• Intelligent change propagation eliminates runtime waste by identifying and executing paths that have true impacts based on changes upstream

FlowTracer™ is the industry's first and only general purpose workflow management tool of this caliber. Whether you are working with lengthy EDA tool flows, massive software builds and test suites, or complex mathematical analysis flows, FlowTracer™ can get the job done in the most efficient manner possible. Our customers typically report 10-20x speedups in total workflow execution time over using make.

Unprecedented visibility and control of your workflow

The FlowTracer™ console provides a hierarchical view of the workflow, push-button control of the workflow execution, and powerful debug capabilities for problematic jobs. View job output with just a couple of mouse clicks to pinpoint failure reasons. View and traverse the dependency tree to see how the workflow is related. Perform an impact analysis, which provides an estimate of execution time for a proposed file change.

Organize large and complex workflows into hierarchical sets of jobs. Control jobs individually, in sets, or globally. Search massive workflows for jobs and files. View the status of connected computing resources and jobs that are waiting on resources. Connect a monitor a compute farm (Network Computer™ or Platform Computing's LSF) to your FlowTracer™ project and increase job throughput. FlowTracer™ knows what can be executed in parallel and when.

FlowTracer™ also includes a web browser interface so you can monitor and control your workflow remotely, regardless of your current platform. Allow your manager or other team members to view your progress quickly and easily. Delegate control of your workflow to a team member if you are unavailable. A full command line interface acts as the primary interface with the system. All of the power of the tool is available via self-documented commands. FlowTracer™ provides a powerful and flexible environment management mechanism to ensure that jobs are always executed in the proper environment. This also enables cross-platform submission of jobs.

No third-party software is needed. FlowTracer™ includes all of these features out of the box, no additional installations are required.

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