Developing and deploying apps new

• Basic concepts

• Platforms

• Applications and versions

• Overview

  • The BOINC wrapper
  • Apps that run in VirtualBox virtual machines
  • Apps that run in Docker containers
  • Example applications

• Basic APIs

  • API for native apps
  • Cross-platform utility functions

• Special types of applications

  • Multicore applications
    • OpenCL CPU applications
  • Applications that use GPUs
    • CUDA applications
    • OpenCL applications
  • Non-CPU-intensive applications
  • MPI applications
  • Sporadic applications

• Specialized APIs

  • Startup and status data
  • Diagnostics
  • Trickle messages
  • Intermediate upload
  • Apps that do network communication
  • API for wrappers

• Adding graphics

  • Adding graphics to the manager's simple view
  • Graphics apps
  • Using OpenGL
  • Using HTML

• Customized scheduling

  • Plan classes
    • Specifying plan classes in XML
    • Specifying plan classes in C++
  • Job-level scheduler customization

• Languages other than C/C++

  • FORTRAN
  • Java
  • Python
  • PyMW: Python master/worker system

• Dynamic library naming issues

• Building applications

  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux
  • Android
  • CUDA and OpenCL

• Debugging applications

  • Windows
  • Android

• Beta-testing applications

• Adding applications/platforms

• Adding application versions