coinstac-computation 0.3

Generic computation implementation on COINSTAC.

COINSTAC computations development made easy.

Express development(see example folder for a use case):

1. mkdir -p example/dist
2. chmod u+x deploy.sh #(Needed only once)
3. ./deploy.sh example/dist

Deployment:

pip install coinstac-computation (or add to requirements.txt file)

Coinstac base computation framework that supports:

• Multiple computation phases.
• Multiple iterations per phase.
• Automatic phase transition.

Use case: Gather max even numbers from each site

A full working use case is in the example directory where

• Local sites filters out even number and send to remote.
• Remote Finds the max for each site and returns to all sites.
• Sites save final result.

inputspec.json data:

[
  {
    "data": {
      "value": [10, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 38, 32, 789, 776, 441]
    }
  },
  {
    "data": {
      "value": [12, 33, 88, 61, 37, 58, 103, 3386, 312, 9, 77, 41]
    }
  }
]

Local node pipeline:

import os
from coinstac_computation import COINSTACPyNode, ComputationPhase


class PhaseLoadData(ComputationPhase):
    def compute(self):
        data = []
        for d in self.input['data']:
            if d % 2 == 0:
                data.append(d)
        return {'filtered_data': data}


class PhaseSaveResult(ComputationPhase):
    def compute(self):
        with open(f"{self.state['outputDirectory'] + os.sep + 'results.txt'}", 'w') as out:
            out.write(f"{self.input['aggregated_data']}")


local = COINSTACPyNode(mode='local', debug=True)
local.add_phase(PhaseLoadData)
local.add_phase(PhaseSaveResult)

Remote node pipeline:

from coinstac_computation import COINSTACPyNode, ComputationPhase, PhaseEndWithSuccess


class PhaseCollectMaxEvenData(ComputationPhase):
    def compute(self):
        data = []
        for site, site_vars in self.input.items():
            site_max = max(site_vars['filtered_data'])
            data.append(site_max)
        return {'aggregated_data': data}


remote = COINSTACPyNode(mode='remote', debug=True)
remote.add_phase(PhaseCollectMaxEvenData)
remote.add_phase(PhaseEndWithSuccess)

Entry point

import coinstac

from local_pipeline import local
from remote_pipeline import remote

coinstac.start(local.compute, remote.compute)

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Run

cd example
docker build -t base . && coinstac-simulator

Extras:

• Must set debug=False while deploying.
• Is backward compaitible to compspecVersion=1(deprecated now):
  • Add the following snippet at the end of local and remote pipeline scripts.
  • Use compspecVersion1 format.

if __name__ == "__main__":
    local.to_stdout()

Specify a phase that needs to be run multiple iterations as:

remote.add_phase(SomeIterativePhase, multi_iterations=True)

and to stop, just return jump_to_next=True as:

class SomeIterativePhase(ComputationPhase):
    def compute(self):
        """All your stuff here..."""
        
        """check if you are done with this phase 
            and want to jump to the next.
        """
        should_jump:bool = ... 
        return {..., 'jump_to_next':should_jump}