Hydra

Hydra is a distributed computing framework for Node.js and browsers. It provides a way to distribute calculation of some arbitrary function f(x) over arbitrary space S between many computation nodes (browsers or other Node.js processes) connected to master node via websockets.

Install

``bash
$ yarn add hydra-framework
`

Usage

$3

1. Create a task:

`ts
// master/tasks/example-task.ts

import { Space, Task } from 'hydra-framework';

function f(x: number): boolean {
return x * x === 64;
}

const space = new Space({
values: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
});

export const task = new Task({ f, space });
`

2. Create Master instance and start the server.

`ts
// master/index.ts

import { Master } from 'hydra-framework';
import { task } from './tasks/example-task';

const master = new Master({ task });

master.start();
`

$3

Create Worker instance and connect to Master.

`ts
import { NodeWebsocketTransport, Worker } from 'hydra-framework';

const worker = new Worker({
transport: new NodeWebsocketTransport({
url: 'ws://localhost:9000'
})
});

worker.start();
`

Concept

Hydra provides the following entities:
- Master:
- stores Task definition as well as algorithm to generate Space and sub-Spaces;
- handles incoming connections from Workers and stores their current work state;
- provides the Task definition to Workers as well as sub-Spaces they should work on;
- stores the Task completion state.
- Worker:
- connects to Master via Transport and requests a Task definition and a sub-Space to work on;
- works on a Task using provided definition and a sub-Space;
- responds to Master with calculation result.
- Transport:
- allows to use BrowserWebsocketTransport or NodeWebsocketTransport depending on the environment.
- Task:
- stores f(x) and a Space.
- Space:
- stores type of the Space, values` array or a value generator function.