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Individual Project Descriptions by Brendan McKay (2008)

Title: Autoson

  • Appropriate Courses:

    COMP3750, COMP8750, COMP8770, COMP8790, COMP6703

  • Status:

    open

  • Supervisor(s)/Client:

    Brendan McKay

  • Research Area(s):

    Unix System Programming

  • Technical Difficulty Level:

    moderate

  • Conceptual Difficulty Level:

    average

Description

Autoson is a batch-queue system for distributing jobs across a network of heterogeneous Unix-like computers. Unfortunately the current version is very out of date: installation is difficult and and various features do not work or work incompletely. Autoson consists of about 10,000 lines of C.

The project aims to re-engineer Autoson to conform with Posix and use the autoconf configuration system. A second aim is to redesign various algorithms used in the program to be more reliable and flexible.

The project will involve a significant amount of Unix programming at the system-call level.

Links and References

Autoson

 

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