Cloudmesh Workflow
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-  This project can also be taken as an independent study or as part of the
   Cloud Engineering class

Goals
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In this project, you will be developing a workflow framework allowing
cloudmesh shell tasks to be executed in a workflow engine. The workflow
engine will be integrated with the cloudmesh backend database.

Workflows will be specified with the help of python functions. These
functions will then be added to a queue. Futures are used to identify
runnable functions that will be executed as soon as their parameters are
defined.

A graphical user interface based on javascript Electron needs to be
developed as part of this project. A preliminary code is available in
Github at

-  https://github.com/cloudmesh/workflow

The current implementation does not have parameter management included.

Requirements
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-  Strong knowledge of python of the student working on the backend.
-  Knowledge of javascript of the student working on the graphical
   interface

Difficulty
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-  *moderate*: The complexity of this project is moderate and allows you
   to look at advanced python language concepts as well as basic
   javascript features for rendering the workflow in real-time. You will
   need to understand multiprocessing in python. An example is provided
   in the Host.ping class in cloudmesh-cloud

Deliverables
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-  Working benchmarks in form of reproducible workflows embedded in
   pytests
-  check-ins into GitHub by all team members. If only one team member
   checks in all other team members will not get credit.
-  benchmark of the tasks while reporting the results into the database
-  Definition of the objects stored in the database.