Overview

This section introduces the FAST-HEP workflow language, compilation pipeline, execution model, and runtime architecture.

Recommended reading order:

1. Getting started

2. Workflow language

3. Compilation pipeline

4. Execution model

The overview section focuses on how workflows are described, compiled, validated, planned, and executed.

Topics include:

• declarative workflows

• dependency inference

• execution planning

• runtime abstraction

• backend independence

• serialisable execution plans