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The GPI framework provides the canvas for graphically assembling algorithms.
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Node refactor #8

Closed aganders3 closed 5 years ago

aganders3 commented 7 years ago

This branch is an attempt to separate the node interface from computation. Much progress was made, but this refactor is dormant, but may serve as a useful proof-of-concept to future developers.

Motivation for this project was: 1) Enable use of multiprocessing on Windows using the ForkServer (introduced in Python 3). This could not be done using the existing framework, because Python requires all objects for multiprocessing to be pickle-able (bound methods are not). 2) Make it easier to implement a self-testing structure for nodes. 3) Enable a future transition to a client-server structure for the framework; running remote nodes, node parallelism, new interfaces, etc.

aganders3 commented 5 years ago

Closing this as a dead-end for now. If we go this route it's probably worth re-thinking from the start rather than using this prototype.