Work generators create jobs (workunits);
the transitioner creates instances (results).
If a work generator tries to maintain a certain number of unsent results
(as the sample work generator does)
it must wait for a bit, after creating jobs,
to let the transitioner create instances of those jobs.
The example work generator waited 5 seconds.
Problem: on a heavily loaded project, the transitioner can fall behind -
minutes or hours behind.
So the above policy can create way too many jobs.
Solution: after creating jobs, the sample work generator
notes the current time X,
then waits until the transitioner catches up to time X
(i.e., until the min workunit.transition_time exceeds X).
This ensures that instances have been created for all the new jobs.
Other work generators the limit the number of unsent jobs
should use the same technique;
use min_transition_time(x) to get the min transition time.
Code cleanup: get_double should be a member of DB_CONN, not DB_BASE.
but checks for the "stop_daemons" trigger file every 1 sec.
Use this instead of sleep() in daemons.
This will speed up bin/stop.
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for when the job completed successfully but
one or more output files had permanent upload failures.
Show this state in web interfaces.
- sample_work_generator: check return value of count_unsent_results(),
so that we don't generate infinite work if there's a DB problem
- web: RSS feed shows news items from last 90 days, rather than 14
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(for many platforms) from samples/example_app/bin
- make_project: change name of example app from uppercase to example_app.
- update_versions: allow version numbers to not have decimal points
- sample work generator: make app name and template files
command-line options;
default to "example_app", "example_app_in.xml", "example_app_out.xml"
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- daily quota mechanism
- reliable mechanism (accelerated retries)
- "trusted" mechanism (adaptive replication)
- scheduler: enforce host scale probation only for apps with
host_scale_check set.
- validator: do scale probation on invalid results
(need this in addition to error and timeout cases)
- feeder: update app version scales every 10 min, not 10 sec
- back-end apps: support --foo as well as -foo for options
Notes:
- If you have, say, cuda, cuda23 and cuda_fermi plan classes,
a host will have separate quotas for each one.
That means it could error out on 100 jobs for cuda_fermi,
and when its quota goes to zero,
error out on 100 jobs for cuda23, etc.
This is intentional; there may be cases where one version
works but not the others.
- host.error_rate and host.max_results_day are deprecated
TODO:
- the values in the app table for limits on jobs in progress etc.
should override rather than config.xml.
Implementation notes:
scheduler:
process_request():
read all host_app_versions for host at start;
Compute "reliable" and "trusted" for each one.
write modified records at end
get_app_version():
add "reliable_only" arg; if set, use only reliable versions
skip over-quota versions
Multi-pass scheduling: if have at least one reliable version,
do a pass for jobs that need reliable,
and use only reliable versions.
Then clear best_app_versions cache.
Score-based scheduling: for need-reliable jobs,
it will pick the fastest version,
then give a score bonus if that version happens to be reliable.
When get back a successful result from client:
increase daily quota
When get back an error result from client:
impose scale probation
decrease daily quota if not aborted
Validator:
when handling a WU, create a vector of HOST_APP_VERSION
parallel to vector of RESULT.
Pass it to assign_credit_set().
Make copies of originals so we can update only modified ones
update HOST_APP_VERSION error rates
Transitioner:
decrease quota on timeout
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- client (Unix): if client crashes while benchmark processes are going,
make sure they detect this and exit.
- back-end programs: remove hardwired assumptions about
what directory they run in, and hence where config.xml is.
E.g., daemons look for it in "..", others expect it in current dir.
New approach: all the programs look for the project dir as follows:
1) the environment var BOINC_PROJECT_DIR, if defined
2) the current dir, if config.xml is there.
3) else ".."
This means you can run programs in either proj/bin/ or proj/,
or (using BOINC_PROJECT_DIR) you can keep executables
outside of the project dir.
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David Anderson