Just a quick note to let everyone know what's in the works in BOINC development.
- I just checked in code that implements "heartbeat" messages
so that applications will exit in a few seconds
if the core client exits ungracefully
NOTE: this is a change to the core/app interface,
so it will require a major version increment (to 4.00)
- We're about to check in bulletproofing code that prevents
two applications from running in the same slot directory,
or accessing the same shared memory segment.
- Daniel Hsu (summer student) recently checked in code that
does time-slicing of applications
(i.e. applications of different projects will alternate
execution instead of running to completion).
- Daniel is also revamping the work-fetch policy in
a way that complements the new CPU scheduling.
See
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/client_sched.php
for the gory details.
- Rom is making good progress on the cross-platform GUI
and will have something usable soon.
- I'm debugging trickle message (both up and down)
and will check in working version soon.
- Brian Boshes (summer student) is working on support
for upload and download of sticky files.
- Noaa Avital (summer student) is working on support for
application graphics under X11.
- Because of the SETI at home launch we're doing numerous
performance-related hacks (like allowing the assimilator
to have N instances, where each one handles only results
with ID == i mod N).
-- David
