TODO update

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HIGH-PRIORITY (must be done to support SETI@home)
- Network retry policies
can't download file: when to give up? how to retry?
exponential backoff
can't upload file: when to give up/retry?
can't connect to sched server
error return from sched server
- make scheduling server use fast CGI
- proxy support
HTTP, Socks
Look at other open source code
- team system
in PHP
- credit display
in PHP
- CPU accounting in the presence of checkpoint/restart
core client periodically gets CPU time, accumulates in state file
- test versioning mechanisms for core
send messages if either
Idea: need to notify user if core becomes out of date.
Send messages if either
1) some WU couldn't be sent because core is too old
2) no WUs could be sent because core is too old
- test incompatible-core mechanism for apps
same as above?
- Think about issues in update core client
What if state file is incompatible?
What if app versions are incompatible?
- test reporting of app errors
- test checksumming of executables
- proxy support
- implement scheme for distributing scheduling server addresses
each project provides a URL for file with list of scheduler address,
- Think about making the set of scheduling servers dynamic
one approach: allow "redirect" reply from server
(requires old address to still work)
second approach: "master URL"
returns a file with list of scheduler address
and email address of "problems" contact
- implement and test hi/lo water mark scheme
- core client must estimate how much work it has left,
based on %done (if available) and time estimates
- CPU accounting in the presence of checkpoint/restart
core client periodically gets CPU time, accumulates in state file
- scalable/efficient server architecture: alternatives
use our own process framework, shared memory for result/WU lists
use fast CGI w/ shared mem
- measure hardware parameters: CPU speed, #CPUs, memory, disk
- define CPU benchmarks
- do this for other platforms
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- get idle-only behavior without screensaver
- Network retry policies
can't download file: when to give up? how to retry?
exponential backoff
can't upload file: when to give up/retry?
can't connect to sched server
error return from sched server
Windows
UNIX
- sched server should return total credit info (user, team?)
could display in default core client display
- edit user account
- team system
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MEDIUM-PRIORITY (must be done for CM)