Compunity is a distributed computing platform, enabling multiple people to work on one project at the same time. At the core of our website we connect researchers to volunteers through a server. Researchers in need of more computing power are able to upload their computationally expensive C projects, after which it will be subdivided into jobs. Consequently, signed up volunteers can browse projects and contribute to a researcher's project bij executing jobs for the chosen project. After a project all jobs of a project are executed, the results can be downloaded by the researcher, easy as that. Our website aims to make executing large projects faster and more efficient.
A project is made up of a c program and an input file. Uploaded c files are compiled to WebAssembly by the webserver using the Emscripten compiler. Each client worker then executes this Wasm code with a single line from the uploaded input file as an argument. When a client is done executing they will post their result and start executing again after getting a new input from the web server.
A project is made up of a c program and an input file. Uploaded c files are compiled to WebAssembly by the webserver using the Emscripten compiler. Each client worker then executes this Wasm code with a single line from the uploaded input file as an argument. When a client is done executing they will post their result and start executing again after getting a new input from the web server.
- Install the required dependencies:
docker, docker-compose, npm - Create a ".env" file (based of the example file):
mv example_env .env - Fill out the blank values in the ".env" file. (SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT, MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD)
- Start the application:
bash start_dev.sh
Note that for the ".env" file, a sufficiently strong password string is provided.
The first time a file is compiled with EMCC the c-libary's will be compiled. This could take a few minutes. After the first compilation the libary's will be cached.
The application database can be managed using "phpmyadmin". This service is accessible through a web-interface at port 3602 of the server IP-address. The website itself is reached at port 3601.
bash npm_build.sh can be used to rebuild the react into the static folder.
bash start.sh can be used to start the website.
DO WHAT THE F*CK YOU WANT
Front-end: React, CSS
Backend-end: Python, Flask, EMCC
Paul Ganzevoort
Jeffrey Kragten
Paul Kwakernaak
Ruben Lanjouw
Tessa van Lobbrecht
Tommaso Trooster
Jurre Wolff
Lleyton Wynter
Jan Deen