Hackfest

The 2nd day of the BOINC workshop will be a "hackfest", in which we divide into groups and get something useful done. Possible activities include:

• design something
• write code
• get existing software to work
• write or improve documentation.

Each group will have a coordinator, who will define the goals and prepare resources.

Workshop attendees: please register for one or more hackfest groups by editing this page. If you don't see a group that interests you, create one.

If you don't participate in a group, you'll have nothing to do on the 2nd day of the workshop.

Possible Hackfest groups

Here are some possible groups. I have filled in names of possible coordinators; this is completely flexible.

Multi-user projects: Interface

Goals:

• Use BOINC's new features for remote job submission and multi-user projects.
• Discuss the design of these features; compare with analogous system, both BOINC- and Grid-based. Improve and extend the design.
• Implement and document some of the improved design.

Coordinator: David Anderson

Participants:

• David Coss
• Evgeny Ivashko
• Natalia Nikitina
• Alejandro Rivero
• Francisco Sanz
• Dario Ferrer
• Fubica
• Oscar Díaz
• Pablo Fonseca

Advance preparation:

• Research analogous existing systems
• Test-drive BOINX's remote job submission system: ​http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test/submit_example.php (log in as guest@…, password "guest").
• Read the documentation: RemoteJobs and PortalFeatures
• Review the source code:
  • http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/trunk/boinc/html/inc/submit.inc
  • http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/trunk/boinc/html/user/submit.php
  • http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/trunk/boinc/html/user/submit_example.php

Multi-user projects: Scheduling

Goals:

• Review and discuss BOINC's new proposed features for user quotas and batch scheduling
• Compare these features with those of analogous Grid-based systems
• Design an implementation of these features
• Implement some part of this

Advance preparation:

• Read the design doc: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/PortalFeatures

Coordinator: David Anderson? Kevin Reed?

Participants:

• Arnaud Legrand
• Derrick Kondo

BOINC on Ubuntu

Goal: bring the BOINC client for Ubuntu up to the same standard as the Windows and Mac versions. In particular:

• One-click installation
• Client start at boot time
• Screensaver
• User activity detection

Coordinator: Steffen Moeller?

Participants:

VM apps

Goal: Create a "cookbook" for deploying virtual machine apps.

Coordinator: Rom Walton?

Participants:

OpenCL apps

Goal: Create a "cookbook" for deploying OpenCL apps.

Coordinator: Oliver Bock

Participants:

• David Coss

BOINC on Android

Goals:

• Learn how to set up a development environment for Android
• Complete the design of the BOINC client for Android; implement some part of it
• Create a cookbook for developing an app version for ARM/Android.

Coordinator: ?

Participants:

• Peter Hanappe

Attic

(Attic is a peer-to-peer file distribution system designed for volunteer computing systems).

Goals:

• Complete the design of BOINC support for Attic.
• Creating a working demo of a project that uses Attic
• Document this in cookbook form

Coordinator: Ian Kelley?

Participants:

PHP hack session / website improvement

Goals:

• Find a new design/usage concept for the general webpages
• develop 1 or 2 alternative web site "themes" using CSS stylesheets and header/footer functions
• Discuss tools to document/visualize php source code (present/discuss/find tools everyone can use)
• Collect ideas to design an API to plug other websites into the BOINC framework (or vice versa)
• general bug hunting and code hardening

Coordinator: Christian Beer

Participants:

Volunteer storage

Goals:

• Review and discuss BOINC's new distributed storage architecture
• develop a simple storage application

Coordinator: David Anderson