Charm++ parallel programming system

[Phil Miller <mille121 AT illinois.edu>]

2010/9/3 Mikołaj Maćkowiak 
<mikolaj.mackowiak AT man.poznan.pl>:
> main goal is to create a volunteer computing system/framework like
> BOINC, where nodes will be able to communicate witch each other.  As you
> probably know, the main problem in those kind of environments is that
> nodes are not always available, have different computation power, can
> give false results, etc.

That sounds like a fun project.

> Load balancing and object migration will be very helpful. However charm
> ++ doesn't support dynamically added nodes, right?

I don't think Charm++ directly supports node addition right now,
though it may have in the past. There was an old project here in PPL
to produce a job scheduler called Faucets that could handle at least
some dynamism in what nodes would run code for Charm++ applications.
Between the current Fault Tolerance infrastructure and that, it should
be possible to add or recover this capability.

Phil