Tentative schedule¶

Adding erasure coding to the durability modeling is a student GSoC 2014 project.

The tentative schedule is (between brackets is the period used to produce the listed deliverables):

Deliverables (19.5 – 8.6):

• Technical report detailing assumptions of the model. If math formulas need modifications for erasure code, then the report will include the new formulas.
• Include ERASURE parameters in Config.py and specified possible values.
• ErasureRely.py: Basic functions to model storage unit ERASURE to estimate durability (main.py will print results on column 2).

Deliverables (9.6 – 23.6):

• Update README.html with new functionalities/assumptions
• New version for ErasureRely that includes the calculus of probabilities of loss (column 3-7)
• Deliverables (24.6 – 9.7):
• ErasureRely.py: Include basic functions to model site configuration ERASURE to estimate durability (main.py will print results on column 2).
• Update README.html with new functionalities/assumptions.

Deliverables (10.7 – 31.7):

• New version for ErasureRely.py that includes the calculus of probabilities of loss (column 3-7) for multiple sites.
• Update README.html with new functionalities/assumptions.
• Deliverables (1.8 – 11.8):
• Document test cases.
• Test scripts/data.
• ErasureGUI.py.
• Document results of tests and TODOs for next projects.
• Updated code to include suggestions of users (only features that require minor changes)

Deliverables (12.8 – 18.8):

• Final version documentation.
• Final version of code with any cosmetic improvement.