This workflow gives an example of using Makeflow to parallelize a text search through a collection of William Shakespeare's plays. Makeflow will run download the plays, package up the version of Perl at the location Makeflow is running, and run a text analysis Perl script in parallel to figure out which character had the most dialogue out of the plays selected.
If you have not done so already, please clone this example repository like so:
git clone https://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/makeflow-examples.git
cd ./makeflow-examples/shakespeare
Finally, execute the workflow using makeflow locally, or using a batch system like Condor, SGE, or Work Queue:
makeflow shakespeare.mf
makeflow -T condor shakespeare.mf
makeflow -T sge shakespeare.mf
makeflow -T wq shakespeare.mf
Alternatively, the makeflow can be run using the JX or JSON format:
makeflow --jx shakespeare.jx
makeflow --json shakespeare.json