[Swift-devel] Back to work

Michael Wilde wilde at anl.gov
Thu May 29 09:32:34 CDT 2014


Tim, this sounds good.  Could you consider how we'd do an async task 
executor that can use iPython's parallel-remote services, as an 
alternative to coasters?

- Mike

ps. Yadu will return to CI on Mon June 2. He's working remotely this week.

On 5/29/14, 9:18 AM, Tim Armstrong wrote:
> Welcome back Yadu!
>
> This isn't work for Yadu exactly, but it touches on Yadu's coasters work.
> I was going to flag that I intended to push forward on full integration of
> asynchronous task executors (GeMTC/Coasters/others) into Swift over the
> summer, since it's important but I haven't gotten around to adding proper
> support for multiple worker types, etc:
> https://code.google.com/p/exm-issues/issues/detail?id=581
> https://code.google.com/p/exm-issues/issues/detail?id=503
> https://code.google.com/p/exm-issues/issues/detail?id=609
>
> - Tim
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Michael Wilde <wilde at anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yadu, welcome back! (at least, part-way back ;)
>>
>> Hope you're having a very pleasant holiday with family and friends.
>>
>> I'll start steering some work your way.  First thing, can you:
>>
>> a) check on the automated tests and report to me what they are seeing.
>> What should I and others (Mihael, Justin, Tim) be looking at to see how
>> the tests are doing?
>>
>> b) Get tests in place, and extend the tests, to test the new "array
>> return from app" logic:
>> - test with and without provider staging
>> - test with and without location= (and other stages)
>> - test with a variety of mappers, starting with simple_mapper and
>> array_mapper(s)
>> - test with and without returning non-array files along with array files
>> (in combination with the above...)
>>
>>   From the list below, 1-3 is good; please set 4 aside for now.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>> On 5/27/14, 2:41 AM, Yadu Nand wrote:
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> I've been working a couple of hours spread over weeks on pSIMS for some
>>> additional
>>> changes Joshua wanted. I have the hours noted for those.
>>>
>>> I'll be working in a bit more regular fashion this week, and we can talk
>> if
>>> needed over skype.
>>>
>>> Here's what's on my list:
>>>
>>> 1. Fix the image issue with compute-engine and mail the list.
>>>     (My brother is testing this for me)
>>>
>>> 2. Documentation for pSIMS.
>>>
>>> 3. Get the test-suite to report results better.
>>>
>>> 4. Go over the picloud documentation (they've stopped new signups)
>>>
>>> If anything of higher priority comes along, I'll be glad to help.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Yadu
>>>
>> --
>> Michael Wilde
>> Mathematics and Computer Science          Computation Institute
>> Argonne National Laboratory               The University of Chicago
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Michael Wilde
Mathematics and Computer Science          Computation Institute
Argonne National Laboratory               The University of Chicago

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