Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of PythonAppDev

Timestamp:

Sep 20, 2007, 10:44:53 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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PythonAppDev

@@ -63 +63 @@
 == Implementation ==
 
+PyBOINC uses a new table, 'batch', which represents a group of jobs.
+Its fields are:
+ * ID
+ * ID of user who submitted this batch
+ * path of 'batch directory'
+
 PyBOINC uses the following files and subdirectories in the job directory:
 
@@ -71 +77 @@
 PyBOINC uses Python's [http://docs.python.org/lib/node317.html Pickler] class for serialization.
 
+The PyBOINC setup script creates an application 'pyboinc'.
+Its work units have two input files: a Python program, and a data file.
+Its application runs a Python interpreter on the program file.
+
+PyBOINC uses the following daemons:
+ * validator: uses the sample bitwise validator
+ * assimilator: uses a variant of sample_assimilator.  Given a completed result, it looks up the batch record, then copies the output file to BATCH_DIR/new/
 
 Pseudocode for the various PyBOINC functions:
@@ -92 +105 @@
             output = Pickler.load(x)
             handle_result(output)
+            move x to old/
         else
             sleep(1)