b-swarm

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B-swarm shows how use javascript to connect N browsers in a swarm which can solve a bigger computation problem in reasonable time. In b-swarm architecture each node in the same time can submit and compute tasks.

Users section

overview
demo
architecture
security
Is this for parasitic computing ?

Developers section

How to get you going
Job object parameters

Credits

Users section

Overview

Currently the project is nothing more than just a demo of what is possible with a little of javascript + web workers + nodejs server.

Demo

Demo page shows several example problems solved using b-swarm environment. In each computation task is split in smaller subtasks which are send to the swarm. Then each subtask result is then send back. And final result is assembled and presented to the user.

Architecture

Coming soon

Security

Absolutely not secure at all ;-). The main problem in distributed computing is to verify the results from individual nodes. The simple solution is duplication. Send the same job to few different nodes and compare the results - assume that if certain number of nodes returned the same results you can trust that the results is correct.
This or any other solution to verify results is NOT implemented in the current version.

Is this for parasitic computing ?

The short answer is no. The parasitic websites, which without user permission use the CPU power to compute tasks in secret are highly unethical. You should always inform your visitors about the fact that your website is going to do a "little" more then just showing funny pictures.
The purpose of this project is to show what is currently possible to achieve with javascript.

Developers section

How to get you going

  1. First install node environment (ver 0.8.2) and package manager

Follow instruction here to install the specyfic version http://ghosttx.com/2012/04/nvm-cheat-sheet-node-version-manager/

sudo apt-get install build-essential g++
  1. Install git and clone the repo

    sudo apt-get install git-core mkdir repo cd repo git clone https://github.com/szydan/b-swarm.git

  2. Then following node modules

    apt-get install npm npm install clone express@2.5.9 linestream socket.io@0.9.7 validator node-uuid

At the end the result is something like

clone@0.1.0 node_modules/clone

linestream@0.3.2 node_modules/linestream

validator@0.4.10 node_modules/validator

express@2.5.9 node_modules/express
├── qs@0.4.2
├── mime@1.2.4
├── mkdirp@0.3.0
└── connect@1.9.2 (formidable@1.0.11)

socket.io@0.9.7 node_modules/socket.io
├── policyfile@0.0.4
├── redis@0.7.2 (hiredis@0.1.14)
└── socket.io-client@0.9.7 (xmlhttprequest@1.2.2, uglify-js@1.2.5, active-x-obfuscator@0.0.1, ws@0.4.21)
  1. for development install nodeunit

    sudo npm install nodeunit -g

To run tests type;

nodeunit test
  1. for easy development you might want to install nodemon

    sudo npm install nodemon -g

then start the application by

nodemon app.js PORT HOST
  1. for production you might want to use forever

    sudo npm install forever -g

    forever start app.js PORT HOST forever list forever stop 0

More info at:
http://blog.nodejitsu.com/keep-a-nodejs-server-up-with-forever

Job object parameters

Job object which is exchanged between clients and the server might contain following properties

job:{
    name:   STRING,    // name of the job
    id:     STRING,    // ID_OF_CLIENT_WHO_REQUESTED_THE_JOB,
    uuid:   STRING,    // assign by the server to identify job 
    doneBy: STRING,    // ID_OF_A CLIENT_WHO_DONE_THE_JOB,
    no:     INT,       // to how many clients send the job (default 1)     
    data:   OBJECT,    // data needed to do the job and results 
                       
                       // all timestmps (milliseconds between midnight of January 1, 1970) 
    ct:     INT        // computation time reported by job manager
    cwt:    INT        // waiting time reported by job manager
    ts1:    INT,       // here server puts the timestamp ms when it received the job
    ts2:    INT,       // here server puts the timestamp when he sent todo job
    ts3:    INT,       // here server puts the timestamp when he received the job results
    ts4:    INT,       // here server puts the timestamp when he sent the job results
    timeout:INT,	   // time in ms after which job should be cancelled 
                       // here client might have a queue of jobs to do 
                       // and before the job will hit the engine might be too late
                       // also if job is computationally intense and client is weak 
                       // it might take too long to complete the job so engine should 
                       // For such intensive jobs engine should 
                       // periodically checks if the job already timed out
}

Credits

For nice clean fractal code example:
http://www.framexpeditions.com/~alex2/teaching/mandelbrot/

For evolving pictures example:
http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/

For inspiration:
All people from nodejs community especially folks from 2012 Node Dublin conference

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