Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of BossaIntro

Timestamp:

Oct 2, 2007, 3:31:00 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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BossaIntro

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 Each app has an estimate of the time or other resources required to complete the task.
 
-To get work for a team, a team administrator
+Selecting an online app invokes the BOSSA ''scheduler'' script,
+which selects a task instance suitable for the user,
+and redirects to its instance URL.
+
+Selecting an offline app invokes the BOSSA scheduler,
+which selects a task and redirects to its instance-start URL.
+
+Team administrators are provided with an interface for getting
+offline tasks for the team.
+
+Users and teams are provided with an interface for seeing
+a list of pending offline tasks.
+They can indicate that one of them is completed;
+this takes them to the instance-complete URL for that task.
+
+== Integration with BOINC ==
+
+Some offline tasks may involve computation done through BOINC;
+i.e. if the task is assigned to a team, the computation is queued
+in the project's BOINC server and dispatched to members of the team.
+(Or if the task is assigned to a user with many computers,
+those computers are used).
+
+Such projects should provide a web interface for submitting such jobs.
+TODO: describe the API by which this script creates the WU.  Give an example.