I am trying to implement some simple example using pyre but with no luck so far. Do you have any experience with pyre or zyre?
2017-11-15 17:42 GMT+01:00 Matej Puk <[email protected]>: > Thanks for the answer. ZeroMQ is something new for me and I had no idea > something like Zyre existed so thanks for bringing it up. It looks like > best solution for my problem so far. > > To your question of how am I defining a neighbor. Well this simulator > which I am developing is supposed to simulate distributed environment on > single or more machines. It is actually a diploma thesis > so there is not so much time for developing it to be able to simulate > environment on more machines but assumption is that in some distant future > it will. > > Now I am focused to develop version which will correctly simulate > environment on single machine. Entities in this environment are threads. > Every thread represent single entity and have behavior. > At beginning I should say that this project is a simulator for distributed > algorithms. So in basic user writes algorithm in simplified language that I > developed than compiler compiles this language and creates > data about behavior of entities described in algorithm. Part of compiling > is also processing file with environment topology where every entity has > it's own id, ip, port and neighbors. > > So every entity know whom are it's neighbors thus knowing ip addresses and > ports. > > But problem was that I think I can not approach this problem via patterns. > Because user has ability to enter whatever algorithm he decides which means > behavior of entities is not predictable and must be flexible. > > I will look into Zyre documentation but at first glance I think it offers > everything that I need. I wanted some simple solution because someone for > example suggested that every entity should have socket for each neighbor, > but I do not think that when I have environment where are 20 entities and > every one of them has 19 sockets on single machine is right approach. > > 2017-11-15 15:10 GMT+01:00 Wes Young <[email protected]>: > >> I am currently fighting with some design issues for my project and as >> newbie to zeroMQ I am here to look for advice. My project should simulate >> distributed algorithm in distributed environment. >> >> >> welcome :) >> >> For example algorithm like brodcasting. I need to implement communication >> between nodes in this environment and I chose to use zeroMq. >> >> My question is what do you think is the best approach when you want to >> design environment where entity must do following: >> >> - be able to receive messages from neighbours, >> - be able to send message to all or maybe few selected neighbours. >> >> some of this may depend how you define “a neighbor” (e.g.: pre-configured >> env, or zero-conf env). if you’re looking for little-to-zero configuration, >> may wanna checkout zyre: >> >> https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:36/ZRE >> https://github.com/zeromq/zyre >> >> My first idea was to give very entity a ROUTER socket. Is it possible to >> achieve it with only routers? >> >> I believe so- but you may wanna start by reading about the different >> patterns first and prototyping some simple one to one, one to two patterns >> to get your hands dirty first, get a feel for the different socket types: >> >> http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Messaging-Patterns >> >> You probably start out with REQ/REP which is easy- then move into async >> (router/dealer) then into something like Zyre where the learning curve is a >> little steeper (but probably closer to what you want long term if I’m >> understanding your question). >> >> As I looked at ROuter it can send message to multiple nodes and also can >> receive messages from multiple nodes. >> >> Every entity knows who is it's neoghbor and have information about IP's >> and ports. >> >> Yea, sounds like a problem ZYRE solves- but if you’re new may wanna work >> your way into it a bit with some of the simpler types first.. >> >> make sense? >> >> — >> wes >> wesyoung.me >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >> >> >
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