TaskManagement

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Proposal

• This proposal, part of the Cytoscape 3.0 project, is to redesign and refactor the task management and monitoring capabilities within cytoscape to provide a more robust task management and task monitoring system.

Background

Cytoscape's current Task, Haltable, and TaskMonitor interfaces have provided useful hooks to monitor, and to a limited extent manage, Cytoscape tasks. Using Cytoscape's task system handles much of the detail of setting up the progress bar, etc. Unfortunately, for a number of reasons, using Cytoscape's task system can lead to significant complexity since it is currently designed to monitor/manage only one task. In addition, many of the current tasks are not coded to be canceled.

Use Cases

The new task management capability should allow us to take better advantage of multi-core machines since we can start up more than one task. For example, we might have a task that reads XGMML over the net and a separate task that parses the XGMML. In this instance, we want two tasks (threads) but we want to treat them as one (a thread group). Alternatively, suppose we want to read in a new network at the same time as we're laying out a different network. These are relatively separable (from the user perspective), and could appear as two separate tasks, either of which coule be killed.

Implementation Plan

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Project Management

Project Timeline

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Tasks and Milestones

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Project Dependencies

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Related RFCs

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Issues

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