Changes between Version 13 and Version 14 of AppVersion

Timestamp:

Jun 5, 2014, 1:19:20 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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AppVersion

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-= Applications and versions =
+= Applications and app versions =
 
-An '''application''' is an abstraction;
-it includes a set of programs
-(for different platforms and processor types) and a set of [JobIn jobs].
-A project can operate many applications.
+In BOINC terminology, an '''application''' is not a single program;
+it's a set of programs (for different platforms and processor types)
+that compute the same thing.
+These individual programs are called '''app versions'''.
+
+Jobs are submitted to applications, not app versions.
+BOINC decides what app version to use when sending a job to a host.
+
+== Applications ==
+
 Applications have the following required properties:
 
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  * Whether the application is [NonCpuIntensive non-CPU-intensive].
 
+A project can have many applications.
 Applications can be created using the [XaddTool xadd] utility,
 based on a description in the '''project.xml''' file.
@@ -23 +30 @@
 [HtmlOps administrative web interface].
 
-An application program may go through a sequence of '''versions'''.
-A particular version, compiled for a particular platform, is
-called an '''application version'''.
-An application version can consist of multiple files:
+== App versions ==
+
+An app version can consist of multiple files:
 for example, a controller script, pre- and post-processing programs, and a primary program.
 
 An application version has the following required properties:
 
- * Version number: an integer. Version numbers should be used consistently across platforms; Windows version 304 should be computationally identical to Mac version 304.
+ * Version number: an integer.
+   Assign these in increasing order;
+   for a given application and platform,
+   BOINC will use only the app version with the greatest version number.
 
 and the following optional properties:
 
- * Min and max core client version: don't send jobs to clients outside this range.
+ * Beta: whether jobs should be sent only to [BetaTest beta-test] users.
+ * Min and max client version: don't send jobs to clients outside this range.
   Specified as an integer, encoded as 10000*major + 100*minor + release.