YODA is a distributed computing architecture framework very simiar in principle to BOINC. It provides a generic interface allowing a multitude of computationally intensive problems to be solved using a public resource computing architecture that can tap into the unused computing power of literally thousands of nodes over the internet. It has some significant differences in the way that it works compared with BOINC. These differences are covered here: Differences with BOINC.
YODA was on display alongside some very big FOSS projects at LinuxAsia 2006. This is a big turn of events for YODA and nothing short of a miracle, considering it began as a semester project by a few students from Pune. We hope this should be enough motivation for our juniors to distribute their work for free on the internet. You never know what's going to happen.
We're back from Linux Asia. To read more on this, visit Archis's homepage. Due to academic pressures, the original YODA team may not be able to take up active development anymore. We had actually decided that YODA would not become one of those dead projects on Sarovar which are registered and never move ahead. But it appears that this may soon become the case. We're all trying to get YODA's future development to be our projects at college and if this happens, we can make sure YODA will keep improving until we can spare time. As of now, we have stopped all activities for lack of funds and all our resources have been diverted towards some more profitable ventures. YODA was initially developed to solve our own optimization problems which we were successful in doing. Beyond that, if you're ready to spend a few bucks for customization and support, some of us may be happy to get involved again.
This site is still under construction and we're just about getting all our systems, configurations and setups in place. More information will be available soon. We are now open to all developers joining in. You may view information about the People behind YODA here.
We have just finished determining the plugin architecture for YODA. Its a bit clumsy right now, but with all your help, it could be better. We request you to join our development efforts and help us out to create a people's computer in Pune. It will be free for everyone to solve their research problems, simulations, etc. Essentially, it will help many scientists who dont have the funds to access a supercomputing facility. And with your participation, it may easily surpass the power of even some supercomputers for specific problems.
In the meantime, please visit our sarovar.org project page for YODA that provides much more detailed information about activities, file releases, bulletins, etc. to enable you to track our progress much better. In the meantime, view the general description of YODA to see how the system will work when finished and ready for a preliminary campus-wide test (which should be somewhere during january 2006).
For further details or queries, you may contact the current project maintainer and administrator Archis Gore.
YODA will be on display at LinuxAsia 2006's .ORG MELA
Conducted a primary Alpha test in labs. It worked successfully. Some minor modifications left. View the results here.
Extensively upgraded a lot of sources on the CVS. Also uploaded the preliminary source code for the JSP pages.