Integrating Python & BOINC

I started working on an embedded Python interpreter for BOINC with Nicolás Alvarez. The interpreter will be the main executable for Python based workunits and provides interop with the BOINC client API. It allows, for example, reporting percentage complete per workunit, which isn’t possible currently with PyMW alone.

The project will likely be incorporated into the BOINC trunk, but the current code is available on bitbucket as PyBOINC if you are interested in seeing how it works.

The Python developers made embedding the interpreter incredibly easy from C/C++ and the BOINC API is readily available from C/C++ as well, so there really isn’t much code. However, packaging the Python standard library and compiling it so it runs on multiple platforms are still going to be challenging.

Tagged Tags: BOINC, GSoC, PyMW, Python on July 12, 2009 at 10:29 pm