OpenMOLE

A new concept has been introduced in OpenMOLE. It is called sources. It makes it possible to grab data from data sources (databases, files, sensors, Internet…) in a consistent manner. It is now strait-forward to implement database access in OpenMOLE in the form of sources for data selection and hooks for data insertion. The source…

Impressive! The OpenMOLE development community is becoming big and wonderful ideas are flourishing. In this post we’d like, first, to say hello to a new full-time OpenMOLE developer: Mark Hammons. He has arrived freshly form the Oklahoma, the country of tornadoes. He is an experienced and talented scala developer. He has interests in many field…

Daddy Django final version is very near and the future is bright for OpenMOLE. The Dark Ages are over and we are entering in the Age of Enlightenment. Among the good news: a new full-time developper will join the team starting from the 7th january 2013, he will work mostly on a web enabled version…

Daddy Django, the 0.7 release of OpenMOLE is imminent. This version is a virtuoso, able to play with tens of thousand of grid jobs without a false note and exposes a brand new graphical interface for composing beautiful sampling melodies. Another cool feature, is the possibility to design a mole in the GUI and export…

Crazy Coconut has just been released. This version is great! It exposes both an impressive bunch of new functionnalities and a real maturity of the core components of OpenMOLE which are now performing extremely well with low memory and CPU footprint. So, what to expect from Daddy Django, the 0.7 version? The main point will…

The 0.6 release of OpenMOLE called Crazy Coconut is on its way out. A release candidate 1 should be made available this week and the final release should happend durring August. For the most exiting features: an even nicer GUI SSH environment support PBS environment support launching multiple instances of the OpenMOLE application is now…

The main point: stable file format. OpenMOLE 1.0 will hopefully be delivred at the begining of 2013. The blocking point for this release is stable and experienced file formats. At this stage we have identified 2 file formats we want to stabilize. One will concern workflow projects and the other concerns workflows. The first one…

The workflow formalism is excellent to describe mix processes with both sequential and parallel aspects. For instance, it is decently easy to describe distributed generational genetic algorithms for which you evaluate many new individual (in ... [More] parallel) at each generation. Then you select the best ‘x’ individuals and generate the subsequent generation. However, this kind of [Less]

As you may already know, we are getting very close to the first complete version of OpenMOLE with a GUI. On that occasion we have designed a development cycle for OpenMOLE. It has been inspired by a talk on agile development we saw last week at the EGI Technical Forum by Stratus Lab Team (thank

Great news! We will be presenting an early alpha version of the graphical interface of OpenMOLE at the EGI Technical Forum next week at the France-Grilles stand. After a year of hard work all the pieces are finally getting together to make real the GUI for OpenMOLE. Hopefully the first version will be released in