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Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight

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Legion is a grid computing framework that uses the Silverlight CLR to execute user definable tasks. It provides grid-wide thread-safe operations for web clients. Client performance metrics, such as bandwidth and processor speed, may be used to tailor jobs. Also includes a WPF Manager application.
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	<Copyright>Copyright © 2007, Daniel Vaughan. All rights reserved.</Copyright>
	<License see="prj:///Documentation/License.txt"/>
	<Owner Name="Daniel Vaughan" Email="dbvaughan@gmail.com"/>
	<CreationDate>2007-12-13 21:52:15Z</CreationDate>
	<LastSubmissionDate>$Date: $</LastSubmissionDate>
	<Version>$Revision: $</Version>
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;
using Orpius.Logging;

namespace Orpius.GridComputing.Tasks
{
	/// <summary>
	/// The server-side implementation of the Prime Finder task.
	/// This task dispatches ranges of numbers to be searched
	/// by slave agents for prime numbers.
	/// </summary>
	class PrimeFinderMaster : MasterTask
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Once we reach this, we are done.
		/// </summary>
		const long searchCeiling = 100000 * 500;//long.MaxValue;
		/// <summary>
		/// This is the range size sent to agents.
		/// </summary>
		const int rangeSize = 100000;

		long taskCounter;

		/// <summary>
		/// The results the agents send back are stored here.
		/// </summary>
		readonly List<long> primeList = new List<long>(); 
		readonly object primeListLock = new object();

		/// <summary>
		/// The highest part of the search range
		/// that we have dispatched so far.
		/// </summary>
		long searchUpper;

		/// <summary>
		/// A list of client ids that have been tasked.
		/// </summary>
		readonly List<long> runningTasks = new List<long>();
		readonly object runningLock = new object();
		bool allTasksDispatched;

		public PrimeFinderMaster()
		{
			StepsGoal = searchCeiling;

			Starting += PrimeFinderTask_Starting;
			Stopping += PrimeFinderTask_Stopping;
		}

		void PrimeFinderTask_Starting(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{
			/* Perform tasks, before we begin, here. */

			Log.Info("PrimeFinderTask Starting.");
		}

		void PrimeFinderTask_Stopping(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{
			/* Perform any cleanup activities here. */

			Log.Info("PrimeFinderTask Stopping.");
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Gets the run data for the <see cref="Agent"/> slave task.
		/// This data should encapsulate the task segment
		/// that will be worked on by the slave. <seealso cref="Job"/>
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="agent">The agent requesting the run data.</param>
		/// <returns>The job for the agent to work on.</returns>
		public override Job GetJob(IAgent agent)
		{
			lock (runningLock)
			{
				if (Completed)
				{
					throw new InvalidOperationException("Invalid state. Task is completed.");
				}

				Job data = new Job(taskCounter);

				if (!allTasksDispatched)
				{	/* Determine a range to be searched. */
					data.Start = taskCounter * rangeSize;

					if (data.Start < searchCeiling)
					{
						long proposedUpper = data.Start + rangeSize;
						long actualUpper = proposedUpper < searchCeiling ? proposedUpper : searchCeiling;
						data.End = actualUpper;
						searchUpper = data.End;
						if (!runningTasks.Contains(taskCounter))
						{
							runningTasks.Add(taskCounter);
						}
						taskCounter++;

						return data;
					}
					else if (runningTasks.Count > 0)
					{
						taskCounter = 0;
						allTasksDispatched = true;
					}
				}
				
				if (allTasksDispatched)
				{	/* Reuse previously dispatched search ranges. */
					if (runningTasks.Count > 0)
					{
						Log.Info("Running Tasks count = " + runningTasks.Count);
						/* We should be using an elevator algorithm to find the next task id. 
						 * We will leave this for later. */
						taskCounter = runningTasks[0];
						data.Start = taskCounter * rangeSize;
						Debug.Assert(data.Start <= searchCeiling);
						long proposedUpper = data.Start + rangeSize;
						long actualUpper = proposedUpper < searchCeiling ? proposedUpper : searchCeiling;
						data.End = actualUpper;

						return data;
					}
				}
				Completed = true;
				throw new InvalidOperationException("Invalid state. Task is completed.");
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Joins the specified task result. This is called
		/// when a slave task completes its <see cref="Job"/>,
		/// after having called <see cref="GetJob"/>;
		/// returning the results to be integrated
		/// by the associated <see cref="MasterTask"/>.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="taskResult">The task result.</param>
		public override void Join(TaskResult taskResult)
		{
			lock (runningLock)
			{
				if (Completed)
				{
					return;
				}

				var array = (IEnumerable<long>)taskResult.Result;
				foreach (int prime in array)
				{
					/* We should verify that it's really prime! */
					lock (primeListLock)
					{
						if (!primeList.Contains(prime))
						{
							primeList.Add(prime);
						}
					}
				}

				runningTasks.Remove(taskResult.JobId);

				StepsCompleted += rangeSize;

				if (runningTasks.Count == 0 
				    && searchUpper >= searchCeiling)
				{	/* Save the results to file. */
					string fileName = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("PrimeFinderTaskOutput.txt");
					StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
					lock (primeListLock)
					{
						foreach (long prime in primeList)
						{
							sb.Append(prime);
							sb.Append(" ");
						}
					}
					string outputText = sb.ToString();
					File.WriteAllText(fileName, outputText);
					Completed = true; /* We're done. */
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

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