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
• Christian Benjamin Ries

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:

• Steffen Moeller
• Jesse Kaukonen

OpenCL apps

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

Coordinator: Oliver Bock

Participants:

• David Coss
• Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein
• Christian Benjamin Ries

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
• Michael Tarantino

[Hi, Carl Christensen here - this is an area I am currently working on i.e. porting BOINC to Android via the NDK, and writing a BOINC Android (Java) GUI to communicate with the libraries via JNI. Unfortunately could not make it to the BOINC Workshop. If anyone is interested or has anything to report or share or suggestions please email me at carlgt1 at yahoo.com ]

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:

• Erwan Keribin

Volunteer storage

Goals:

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

Coordinator: David Anderson

Participants

• Neil Massey
• Andy Bowery

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