RabbitMQ has first class support for Python, so that should not be a problem. Suresh already included the link. Suresh covered most of the bases already, so I’ll just reiterate that Airavata’s use of AMQP/RabbitMQ and Thrift should make it programming language independent. You can see how well this holds up in reality.
Marlon From: Jeffery Kinnison <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 4:35 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Planning for In-Situ Application and Resource Monitoring [GSoC Project] Thanks Suresh, I was hoping that I could stick with Python for the meat of the project, not just because it's the language I'm most comfortable with, but also thanks to the fact that it's fairly ubiquitous on HPC systems. I'll take a look at either interfacing the POC with RabbitMQ or converting it entirely to their Python bindings. If anyone has any alternative suggestions, they would be much appeciated. Jeff K. On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Jeff, On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:08 PM, Jeffery Kinnison <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Dev Team, I'd like to develop a plan for implementing my GSoC project in conjunction to getting my development environment up and running. This is my first substantial experience with Open Source software development on this scale, so thank you in advance for bearing with me. You did great during proposal (hence you have a project), just continue the same. At worse you will hear a lot of RTFM which is a common encounter in open source. I will let you google for it. The full project proposal can be found at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/GSoC+Proposal+-+In+Situ+Simulation+Analysis+Using+Airavata The idea is to allow Airavata users to look behind the curtain at jobs they are running and enable automatic response to conditions encountered as jobs run, both at the system and application level. This will likely require a lightweight server to run alongside each job, which will communicate with the Airavata server. I have a prototype for the lightweight server (https://github.com/jeffkinnison/simstream) written in Python, however I know that Apache software is typically Java-based. The question here is one of whether or not the prototype can be rolled into Airavata, or if I need to begin looking into Java-based solutions. No, you do not need to port your simstream to Java, infact. Since your application demeon will need to run on HPC compute nodes, Java will not be a good fit there. I think you should stick to python. For the communication with Airavata, one suggestion will be to send a AMQP message which Airavata listens to. You can follow this tutorial as a start - https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-one-python.html. Others may have different suggestions. The other initial question I have is one of how the Airavata server submits jobs. From what I can tell, Airavata sends batch scripts to connected computing resources, and my thinking right now about how to deploy the lightweight server is to add its startup logic to the submit scripts. Is this the correct thinking? Yes thats exactly right. As you might see from other discussions, the cloud based submissions might not have a batch script, but its fair to assume your server will be launched one way or another. Again, thank you for answering these questions, and I'm looking forward to working with everyone this summer. Keep them coming. Suresh Best, Jeff K.
