globus/globus-compute

get_results to use batched status requests

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#238 opened on Sep 2, 2020

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Description

Currently we request task status for tasks one at a time when get_results is invoked. We could decouple this by introducing a thread that would do a batched status request for all pending tasks so that we minimize client->funcx-service communication. This would become shared mechanism to introduce a future based system if we want that.

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Implement a background thread that periodically batches status requests for all pending tasks to minimize client to service communication.
Tech stack
python
Domain
backendapidistributed systems
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Feature
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2
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Half day
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Fresh
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Clear
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PythonthreadingHTTP requests
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65