====== Desktop Usage ======
===== Motivation =====
Provide a desktop version of the Workflow Manager which allows easy installation and minimum requirements with the purpose of developing and testing workflows.

===== Workflow Manager Components =====

==== Cluster/Queueing System ====
No cluster/queueing system is necessary since the modules should always run by direct execution, i.e. by directly calling a script or executable instead of submitting one or several jobs to the queueing system.

==== Database ====
No installation of a database server is necessary since this should be provided by the Workflow Manager application.

==== Storage ====
Support only for file system storage. That requires that the workflow input datasets are accessible on the local file system, and that the processing results are stored also locally.

==== Modules ====
They should be provided by the user and should be accessible. The path to the modules to run is set in the workflow.xml description, as usual.

==== User Interface ====
A small GUI should be provided to allow the following operations:
  * Select the user provided workflow
  * Select the user provided input datasets on the file system
  * Select a path where to store the processing results