Changelog¶

globus-compute-sdk & globus-compute-endpoint v2.0.2a0¶

Bug Fixes¶

Address a concurrent data structure modification error that resulted in stalled processing and lost tasks

Changed¶

The API https://api2.funcx.org/.. URL has been updated to https://compute.api.globus.org/..

globus-compute-sdk & globus-compute-endpoint v2.0.1¶

New Functionality¶

Support for timing out tasks that exceed a walltime limit on the globus-compute-endpoint. Use global variable GC_TASK_TIMEOUT which accepts a float to set the limit.

Add a --display-name option to endpoint configure to use as a human readable name for the endpoint. If not specified, the display_name defaults to the endpoint name.

Bug Fixes¶

Required fields were missing from the final endpoint status update that is sent when an endpoint is gracefully shutting down, causing issues when getting the status of an endpoint.

globus-compute-sdk & globus-compute-endpoint v2.0.0¶

New Functionality¶

funcx and funcx-endpoint have been rebranded as globus-compute-sdk and globus-compute-endpoint.
For the SDK, funcx.FuncXClient and funcx.FuncXExecutor have been renamed to globus_compute_sdk.Client and globus_compute_sdk.Executor
The endpoint agent command is now globus-compute-endpoint instead of funcx-endpoint.
The above should be sufficient for many users. If other classes from the old packages were in use, please see https://globus-compute.readthedocs.io/en/latest/funcx_upgrade.html for more detailed change information and for additional upgrade requirements, if any.

Deprecated¶

The funcx and funcx-endpoint packages have been deprecated.

globus-compute-sdk & globus-compute-endpoint v2.0.0¶

New Functionality¶

funcx and funcx-endpoint have been rebranded as globus-compute-sdk and globus-compute-endpoint.
For the SDK, funcx.FuncXClient and funcx.FuncXExecutor have been renamed to globus_compute_sdk.Client and globus_compute_sdk.Executor
For the Endpoint, merely use the command globus-compute-endpoint instead of funcx-endpoint.
The above should be sufficient for many users. If other classes from the old packages were in use, please see https://globus-compute.readthedocs.io/en/latest/funcx_upgrade.html for more detailed change information and for additional upgrade requirements, if any.

Deprecated¶

The funcx and funcx-endpoint packages have been deprecated.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.13¶

New Functionality¶

Add two items to the Config object: idle_heartbeats_soft and idle_heartbeats_hard. If set, the endpoint will auto-shutdown after the specified number of heartbeats with no work to do.

Bug Fixes¶

Address broken login-flow, introduced in v1.0.12 when attempting to start an endpoint. This affected users with invalid or missing credentials. (e.g., new users or new installs).

Removed¶

Removed all Search-related functionality.

Deprecated¶

Deprecated all Search-related arguments to FuncXClient methods.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.12¶

New Functionality¶

Implement client credentials for Kubernetes Endpoint Helm chart

Changed¶

Updated package dependencies.
Simplified format of endpoint status reports.
Streamlined API function registration

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.11¶

New Functionality¶

Created FuncxWebClient and FuncXClient methods to delete endpoints from the web service.
Added a --force flag for the funcx-endpoint delete command, which ensures that the endpoint is deleted locally even if the web service returns an error or is unreachable.

Bug Fixes¶

For new installs, handle unusual umask settings robustly. Previously, a umask resulting in no execute or write permissions for the main configuration directory would result in an unexpected traceback for new users. Now we ensure that the main configuration directory at least has the write and executable bits set.
The funcx-endpoint delete command now deletes the endpoint both locally and from the web service.
If a user attempts to start an endpoint that has already been marked as deleted in the web service, the process will exit with an error.

Security¶

Previously, the main configuraton directory (typically ~/.funcx/) would be created honoring the users umask, typically resulting in world-readability. In a typical administration, this may be mitigated by stronger permissions on the user’s home directory, but still isn’t robust. Now, the group and other permissions are cleared. Note that this does _not_ change existing installs, and only address newly instantiated funcX endpoint setups.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.10¶

Bug Fixes¶

Fix idle-executor handling in manager that was broken in v1.0.9

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.9¶

New Functionality¶

‘whoami’ has been added to the cli to show the current logged in identity and linked identities. - A –linked-identities optional argument shows all linked identities - ie. funcx-endpoint whoami or funcx-endpoint whoami –linked-identities

Bug Fixes¶

FuncXExecutor no longer ignores the specified container_id. The same function may now be utilized in containers via the normal workflow:

import funcx

def some_func():
    return 1
with funcx.FuncXExecutor() as fxe:
    fxe.endpoint_id = "some-endpoint-uuid"
    fxe.container_id = "some-container_uuid"
    fxe.submit(some_func)
    fxe.container_id = "some-other-container-uuid"
    fxe.submit(some_func)  # same function, different container!
    # ...

Changed¶

Initiate shutdown of any currently running FuncXExecutor objects when the main thread ends (a.k.a., “end of script”). This follows the same behavior as both ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.8¶

New Functionality¶

The endpoint can now register metadata such as IP, hostname, and configuration values with the funcX services.

Changed¶

Pin Parsl version required by the funcX Endpoint to v2023.1.23

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.7¶

New Functionality¶

When an API auth error is raised by a FuncXClient method, a new auth flow will be initiated.
The funcX Endpoint will now shutdown after 5 consecutive failures to initialize. (The previous behavior was to try indefinitely, even if the error was unrecoverable.)
Add API Calls to request a docker image build and to check on the status of a submitted build

Changed¶

The exceptions raised by FuncXClient when the web service sends back an error response are now instances of globus_sdk.GlobusAPIError and the FuncX specific subclass FuncxAPIError has been removed.

Previous code that checked for FuncxAPIError.code_name should now check for GlobusAPIError.code

In prior versions of the funcx package:

import funcx

client = funcx.FuncXClient()
try:
    client.some_method(...)
except funcx.FuncxAPIError as err:
    if err.code_name == "invalid_uuid":
        ...

In the new version:

import funcx
import globus_sdk

client = funcx.FuncXClient()
try:
    client.some_method(...)
except globus_sdk.GlobusAPIError as err:
    if err.code == "INVALID_UUID":
        ...

Renamed the FuncXClient method lock_endpoint to stop_endpoint.
Renamed the Endpoint.stop_endpoint() parameter lock_uuid to remote.
HighThroughputExecutor.address now accepts only IPv4 and IPv6. Example configs have been updated to use parsl.address_by_interface instead of parsl.address_by_hostname. Please note that following this change, endpoints that were previously configured with HighThroughputExecutor(address=address_by_hostname()) will now raise a ValueError and will need updating.
For better security, HighThroughputExecutor now listens only on a specific interface rather than all interfaces.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.6¶

New Functionality¶

Add a ‘–remote’ option when stopping endpoints to create a temporary lock such that any running endpoints with the same UUID will get a locked response and exit.
Added get_endpoints methods to FuncXWebClient and FuncXClient, which retrieve a list of all endpoints owned by the current user

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.5¶

Bug Fixes¶

Prevent Endpoint ID from wrapping in funcx-endpoint list output.

Changed¶

Updated minimum Globus SDK requirement to v3.14.0
Reorder funcx-endpoint list output: Endpoint ID column is now first and Endpoint Name is now last.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.5a0¶

New Functionality¶

Added .get_result_amqp_url() to FuncXClient to acquire user credentials to the AMQP service. Globus credentials are first verified before user-specific AMQP credentials are (re)created and returned. The only expected use of this method comes from FuncXExecutor.
Captures timing information throughout the endpoint by reporting TaskTransitions.

Bug Fixes¶

General and specific attention to the FuncXExecutor, especially around non-happy path interactions - Addressed the often-hanging end-of-script problem - Address web-socket race condition (GH#591)

Deprecated¶

batch_enabled argument to FuncXExecutor class; batch communication is now enforced transparently. Simply use .submit() normally, and the class will batch the tasks automatically. batch_size remains available.
asynchronous, results_ws_uri, and loop arguments to FuncXClient class; use FuncXExecutor instead.

Changed¶

Refactor funcx.sdk.batch.Batch.add method interface. function_id and endpoint_id are now positional arguments, using language semantics to enforce their use, rather than (internal) manual assert checks. The arguments (args) and keyword arguments (kwargs) arguments are no longer varargs, and thus no longer prevent function use of function_id and endpoint_id.
FuncXExecutor no longer creates a web socket connection; instead it communicates directly with the backing AMQP service. This removes an internal round trip and is marginally more performant.
FuncXExecutor now much more faithfully implements the _concurrent.futures.Executor interface. In particular, the endpoint_id and container_id items are specified on the executor _object_ and not per .submit() invocation. See the class documentation for more information.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.4¶

New Functionality¶

Add .task_count_submitted member to FuncXExecutor. This value is useful for determining in client code how many tasks have actually made it to the funcX Web Services.
Add a flag to avoid creating websocket queues on batch runs, the new default is not to create. Note that if the queue is not created, results will have to be retrieved directly instead of via background polling of the websocket

Bug Fixes¶

gh#907 - Enable concurrent access to the token store by manually serializing access to the SQLite DB.

Deprecated¶

The batch_interval keyword argument to the FuncXExecutor is no longer utilized. Internally, the executor no longer waits to coalesce tasks. Instead, it pulls them as fast as possible until either the input queue lags or the count of tasks in the batch reaches batch_size.

Changed¶

The funcx_client argument to FuncXExecutor() has been made optional. If nothing is passed in, the FuncXExecutor now creates a FuncXClient for itself.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.3¶

New Functionality¶

Add logic to support Globus Auth client credentials. This allows users to specify FUNCX_SDK_CLIENT_ID and FUNCX_SDK_CLIENT_SECRET environment variables to use a client credential.
Endpoints now report their online status immediately on startup (previously, endpoints waited heartbeat_period seconds before reporting their status).
In order to support the new endpoint status format, endpoints now report their heartbeat period as part of their status report package.
Add –log-to-console CLI flag to the endpoint. This is mostly to entertain additional development styles, but may also be useful for some end-user workflows.
funcX Endpoint: Implement ANSI escape codes (“color”) for log lines emitted to the console. This is currently targeted to aid the development and debugging process, so color is strictly to the console, not to logs. Use the –log-to-console and –debug flags together.
Added logout command for funcx-endpoint to revoke cached tokens

Changed¶

Changed the way that endpoint status is stored in the services - instead of storing a list of the most recent status reports, we now store the single most recent status report with a TTL set to the endpoint’s heartbeat period. This affects the formatting of the return value of FuncXClient.get_endpoint_status.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.2¶

New Functionality¶

New ResultStore class, that will store backlogged result messages to <ENDPOINT_DIR>/unacked_results/
Upon disconnect from RabbitMQ, the endpoint will now retry connecting periodically while the executor continues to process tasks

Bug Fixes¶

Fixed issue with quiesce event not getting set from the SIGINT handler, resulting in cleaner shutdowns
DillCodeSource updated to use dill’s lstrip option to serialize function definitions in nested contexts.

Removed¶

ResultsAckHandler is removed, and unacked_results.p files are now obsolete.

Changed¶

DillCodeSource will now be used ahead of DillCode

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.1¶

Bug Fixes¶

Fix bug where stored credentials would fail to be loaded (manifesting in an EOF error for background processes while unnecessarily attempting to recollect credentials)

funcx & funcx-endpoint v1.0.0¶

Bug Fixes¶

Now using the correct HighThroughputExecutor constructor arg to set the log dir for workers

New Functionality¶

FuncXClient now warns you if it thinks you may have supplied funcx_service_address and results_ws_uri that point to different environments. This behavior can be turned off by passing warn_about_url_mismatch=False.

Removed¶

The off_process_checker, previously used to test function serialization methods, was removed

Changed¶

[Breaking] funcx and funcx-endpoint both require v1.0.0+ to connect to cloud-hosted services, and older versions will no longer be supported.
[Breaking] funcx-endpoint now connects to the cloud-hosted services with RabbitMQ over port:5671 instead of ZeroMQ which previously used ports (55001-55003).
[Breaking] Communication with the services are now encrypted and go over AMQPS (TLS/SSL encrypted AMQP).
Pickle module references were replaced with dill
The order of serialization method attempts has been changed to try dill.dumps first
Alter the FuncXEndpoint to include a timestamp with each task state change. This is mostly for the development team so as to support retrospective log analyses of where tasks get stuck in the pipeline.
The Parsl dependency has been upgraded to a more recent parsl master, from the older parsl 1.1 release. This allows recent changes to provider functionality to be accessed by funcX endpoint administrators.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.4.0a2¶

Added¶

The FuncXWebClient now sends version information via User-Agent headers through the app_name property exposed by globus-sdk
- Additionally, users can send custom metadata alongside this version information with user_app_name
The funcx-endpoint service now interfaces with RabbitMQ.
- As previously, the endpoint registers with the FuncX web service upon startup, but now receives endpoint-specific RabbitMQ connection configuration.

Removed¶

The config file in ~/.funcx/config.py has been removed from any application logic. The file will not be automatically cleaned up but is ignored by the funcx-endpoint application.

Changed¶

The CLI interface for funcx-endpoint has been updated in several ways:
- -h is supported as a help option
- funcx-endpoint --version has been replaced with funcx-endpoint version
The funcx error module has been renamed from funcx.utils.errors to funcx.errors

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.4.0a1¶

Added¶

TaskQueueSubscriber class added that allows receiving tasks over RabbitMQ
ResultQueuePublisher class added that allows publishing results and status over RabbitMQ
TaskQueuePublisher class added for testing
ResultQueueSubscriber class added for testing
A bunch of tests are added that test the above classes described above

Implement Task Group reloading on the FuncXExecutor. Look for .reload_tasks()
FuncXExecutor.submit returns futures with a .task_id attribute that will contain the task ID of the corresponding FuncX task. If that task has not been submitted yet, then that attribute will contain None.
The FuncXClient may now be passed do_version_check=False on init, which will lead to faster startup times
The FuncXClient now accepts a new argument login_manager, which is expected to implement a protocol for providing authenticated http client objects, login, and logout capabilities.
The login manager and its protocol are now defined and may be imported as in from funcx.sdk.login_manager import LoginManager, LoginManagerProtocol. They are internal components but may be used to force a login or to implement an alternative LoginManagerProtocol to customize authentication

Removed¶

The following arguments to FuncXClient are no longer supported: force_login
The SearchHelper object no longer exposes a method for searching for endpoints, as this functionality was never fully implemented.
The custom response type provided by the SearchHelper object has been removed. Instead, callers to function search will get the Globus Search response object directly

Deprecated¶

The following arguments to FuncXClient are deprecated and will emit warnings if used: fx_authorizer, search_authorizer, openid_authorizer. The use-cases for these arguments are now satisfied by the ability to pass a custom LoginManager to the client class, if desired.
The openid_authorizer argument to FuncXClient is now deprecated. It can still be passed, but is ignored and will emit a DeprecationWarning if used

Changed¶

The endpoint has a new log level, TRACE, which is more verbose than DEBUG
The FuncXClient constructor has been refactored. It can no longer be passed authorizers for various sub-services. Instead, a new component, the LoginManager, has been introduced which makes it possible to pass arbitrary globus-sdk client objects for services (by passing a customized login manager). The default behavior remains the same, checking login and doing a new login on init.
Tokens are now stored in a new location, in a sqlite database, using globus_sdk.tokenstorage. Users will need to login again after upgrading from past versions of funcx.
Remove support for python3.6
Endpoint logs have been reduced in verbosity. A number of noisy log lines have been lowered to TRACE level. [PREFIXES] have been removed from many messages as they contain information more reliably availale in log metadata.
FuncXExecutor now uses batched submission by default. This typically significantly improves the task submission rate when using the executor interface (for example, 3 seconds to submit 500 tasks vs 2 minutes, in an informal test). However, individual task submission latency may be increased.

To use non-batched submission mode, set batch_mode=False when instantiating the FuncXExecutor object.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.9¶

Bug Fixes¶

Improve performance in endpoint interchange->manager dispatch, by fixing a race condition in worker status processing. In an example kubernetes setup, this can double throughput of 5 second tasks on 6 workers.
Pin the version of click used by funcx-endpoint. This resolves issues stemming from typer being incompatible with the latest click release.

Removed¶

FuncXFuture was removed. This functionality has been superseded by code in FuncXExecutor which uses plain Futures.

Changed¶

Endpoint logs now have richer metadata on each log line
Endpoint threads and processes now have human readable names, for logging metadata

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.8¶

New Functionality¶

Added option for pinning workers to different accelerators
Log standard error and output from workers to disk

Changed¶

FuncXExecutor is now importable from the top-level namespace, as in from funcx import FuncXExecutor

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.7¶

Bug Fixes¶

When a provider raised an exception, that exception was then mishandled and presented as an AttributeError. This handling now no longer corrupts the exception. https://github.com/funcx-faas/funcX/issues/679

New Functionality¶

Capture, log, and report execution time information. The time a function takes to execute is now logged in worker debug logs and reported to the funcX service.
Added Helm options to specify Kuberenetes workerDebug, imagePullSecret and maxIdleTime values.

Changed¶

Kubernetes worker pods will now be named funcx-worker-* instead of funcx-* to clarify what these pods are to observers of ‘kubectl get pods’
Logging for funcx-endpoint no longer writes to ~/.funcx/endpoint.log at any point. This file is considered deprecated. Use funcx-endpoint --debug <command> to get debug output written to stderr.
The output formatting of funcx-endpoint logging has changed slightly when writing to stderr.

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.6¶

Released on February 1, 2022.

Bug Fixes¶

Updates the data size limit for WebSockets from 1MB to 11MB to address issue:https://github.com/funcx-faas/funcX/issues/677
Fixed an issue in which funcx-endpoint commands expected the ~/.funcx/ directory to exist, preventing the endpoint from starting on new installs

Changed¶

The version of globus-sdk used by funcx has been updated to v3.x .
FuncXClient is no longer a subclass of globus_sdk.BaseClient, but instead contains a web client object which can be used to prepare and send requests to the web service
FuncXClient will no longer raise throttling-related errors when too many requests are sent, and it may sleep and retry requests if errors are encountered
The exceptions raised by the FuncXClient when the web service sends back an error response are now instances of funcx.FuncxAPIError. This means that the errors no longer inherit from FuncxResponseError. Update error handling code as follows:

In prior versions of the funcx package:

import funcx
from funcx.utils.response_errors import (
    FuncxResponseError, ResponseErrorCode
)

client = funcx.FuncXClient()
try:
    client.some_method(...)
except FuncxResponseError as err:
    if err.code == ResponseErrorCode.INVALID_UUID:  # this is an enum
        ...

In the new version:

import funcx

client = funcx.FuncXClient()
try:
    client.some_method(...)
except funcx.FuncxAPIError as err:
    if err.code_name == "invalid_uuid":  # this is a string
        ...

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.5¶

Released on January 12th, 2021

funcx v0.3.5 is a minor release that includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from: Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk>, Ben Galewsky <bengal1@illinois.edu>, Daniel S. Katz <d.katz@ieee.org>, Kirill Nagaitsev <knagaitsev@uchicago.edu> Michael McQuade <michael@giraffesyo.io>, Ryan Chard <rchard@anl.gov>, Stephen Rosen <sirosen@globus.org>, Wes Brewer <whbrew@gmail.com> Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com>, Zhuozhao Li <zhuozhl@clemson.edu>

Bug Fixes¶

MaxResultSizeExceeded is now defined in funcx.utils.errors. Fixes issue#640
Fixed Websocket disconnect after idling for 10 mins. See issue#562 funcX SDK will not auto-reconnect on remote-side disconnects
Cleaner logging on the funcx-endpoint. See PR#643 Previously available set_stream_logger, set_file_logger methods are now removed. For debugging the SDK use standard logging methods, as described in the Python Logging HOWTO, on the logger named "funcx".

For example:
```
import logging

logger = logging.getLogger("funcx")
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
ch = logging.StreamHandler()
ch.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
funcx_logger.addHandler(ch)
```
Warn and continue on failure to load a results ack file. PR#616

New Functionality¶

Result size raised to 10MB from 512KB. See PR#647
Version match constraints between the funcx-endpoint and the funcx-worker are now relaxed. This allows containers of any supported python3 version to be used for running tasks. See PR#637
New example config for Polaris at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
Simplify instructions for installing endpoint secrets to cluster. PR#623
Webservice and Websocket service URLs are resolved by the names “production” and “dev”. These values can be passed to FuncX client init as in environment="dev", or by setting the FUNCX_SDK_ENVIRONMENT environment variable.
Support for cancelling tasks in funcx_endpoint.executors.HighThroughputExecutor. To cancel a task, use the best_effort_cancel method on the task’s future. This method differs from the concurrent futures future.cancel() method in that a running task can be cancelled. best_effort_cancel returns True only if the task is cancellable with no guarantees that the task will not execute. If the task is already complete, it returns False

Note

Please note that this feature is not yet supported on the SDK.

Example:
from funcx_endpoint.executors import HighThroughputExecutor htex = HighThroughputExecutor(passthrough=False) htex.start() future = htex.submit(slow_function) future.best_effort_cancel()

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.4¶

Released on October 14th, 2021

funcx v0.3.4 is a minor release that includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from:

Ben Galewsky <bengal1@illinois.edu>, Kyle Chard <chard@uchicago.edu>, Stephen Rosen <sirosen@globus.org>, and Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com>

Bug Fixes¶

Updated requirements to exclude pyzmq==22.3.0 due to unstable wheel. Issue#577
Updated requirements specification to globus-sdk<3.0

New Functionality¶

Docs have been restructured and updated to use a cleaner theme
New smoke_tests added to test hosted services

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.3¶

Released on September 20th, 2021

funcx v0.3.3 is a minor release that includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from:

Ben Galewsky <bengal1@illinois.edu>, Kyle Chard <chard@uchicago.edu>, Kirill Nagaitsev <knagaitsev@uchicago.edu>, Stephen Rosen <sirosen@globus.org>, Uriel Mandujano <uriel@globus.org>, and Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com>

Bug Fixes¶

An exception is raised if results arrive over WebSocket result when no future is available to receive it PR#590
Example configs have been updated to use init_blocks=0 as a default. PR#583
Log result passing to forwarder only for result messages PR#577
Fix zmq option setting bugs PR#565

New Functionality¶

Endpoints will now stay running and retry connecting to funcX hosted services in a disconnection event PR#588, PR#572
Endpoints will now use ACK messages from the forwarder to confirm that results have been received PR#571
Endpoints will persist unacked results and resend them during disconnection events PR#580
Result size limits have been revised from 10MB to 512KB. If result size exceeds 512KB, a MaxResultSizeExceeded exception is returned. PR#586
Add additional platform info to registration message PR#592
All endpoint logs, (EndpointInterchange.log, interchange.stderr, interchange.stdout) will now be collated into a single log: endpoint.log PR#582

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.2¶

Released on August 11th, 2021

funcx v0.3.2 is a minor release that includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from: Ben Galewsky <bengal1@illinois.edu>, Rafael Vescovi <ravescovi@gmail.com>, Ryan <rchard@anl.gov>, Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com>, Zhuozhao Li <zhuozhl@clemson.edu>

New Functionality¶

Streamlined release process PR#569, PR#568
Added a new funcX config for Cooley at ALCF. PR#566

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.1¶

Released on July 26th, 2021

funcx v0.3.1 is a minor release that includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from: Ben Galewsky <bengal1@illinois.edu>, Kirill Nagaitsev <knagaitsev@uchicago.edu>, Ryan Chard <rchard@anl.gov>, and Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com>

Bug Fixes¶

Removed process check from endpoint status check for better cross platform support PR#559
Fixes to ensure that container_cmd_options propagate correctly PR#555

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.3.0¶

Released on July 08th, 2021

funcx v0.3.0 is a major release that includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from: Ben Galewsky <bengal1@illinois.edu>, Kyle Chard <chard@uchicago.edu>, Kirill Nagaitsev <knagaitsev@uchicago.edu>, Daniel S. Katz <d.katz@ieee.org>, Stephen Rosen <sirosen@globus.org>, Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com>, Yongyan Rao <yongyan.rao@gmail.com>, and Zhuozhao Li <zhuozhao@uchicago.edu>

Bug Fixes¶

FuncXClient.get_result(<TASK_ID>) will now raise a TaskPending with an expanded failure reason. See PR#502
funcx-endpoint start and stop commands are now improved to report broken/disconnected states and handle them better. See issue#327
Fixed ManagerLost exceptions triggering failures. See issue#486
Several fixes and tests for better error reporting. See PR#523

New Functionality¶

Support added for websockets to minimize result fetching latency.

FuncXClient(asynchronous=True) now enables asynchronous result fetching using Asycio library.

Here’s an example:

from funcx import FuncXClient

def hello():
    return "Hello World!"

fxc = FuncXClient(asynchronous=True)
fn_id = fxc.register_function(hello, description="Hello")

# In asynchronous mode, function run returns asyncio futures
async_future = fxc.run(endpoint_id=<ENDPOINT_ID>, function_id=fn_id)
print("Result : ", await async_future)

A new FuncXExecutor class exposes funcX functionality using the familiar executor interface from the concurrent.futures library.

Here’s an example:

from funcx import FuncXClient
from funcx.sdk.executor import FuncXExecutor

def hello():
    return "Hello World!"

funcx_executor = FuncXExecutor(FuncXClient())

# With the executor, functions are auto-registered
future = funcx_executor.submit(hello, endpoint_id=<ENDPOINT_ID>)

# You can check status of your task without blocking
print(future.done())

# Block and wait for the result:
print("Result : ", future.result())

Endpoint states have been renamed to running, stopped, and disconnected. See PR#525
Container routing behavior has been improved to support soft and hard routing strategies. See PR#324

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.2.3¶

Released on May 19th, 2021

funcx v0.2.3 is a minor release that includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from: Ben Galewsky <ben@peartreestudio.net>, Ryan Chard <rchard@anl.gov>, Weinan Si <siweinan@gmail.com>, Yongyan Rao <yongyan.rao@gmail.com> Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com> and Zhuozhao Li <zhuozhao@uchicago.edu>

Bug Fixes¶

Fixed a missing package in the requirements.txt file
Updated version requirements in funcx-endpoint to match the funcx version
funcx-endpoint commandline autocomplete has been fixed. See issue#496
funcx-endpoint restart failure is fixed. See issue#488
Several fixes and improvements to worker terminate messages which caused workers to crash silently. See issue#462
Fixed KubernetesProvider to use a default of init_blocks=0. See issue#237

New Functionality¶

FuncXClient.get_result(<TASK_ID>) will now raise a TaskPending exception if the task is not complete.
Multiple improvement to function serialization. See issue#479
- FuncXSerializer has been updated to prioritize source-based function serialization methods that offer more reliable behavior when the python version across the client and endpoint do not match.
- FuncXSerializer now attempts deserialization on an isolated process to preempt failures on a remote worker.
More consistent worker task message types. See PR#462
Better OS agnostic path joining. See PR#458

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.2.2¶

Released on April 15th, 2021

funcx v0.2.2 is a hotfix release that includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from:

Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com> and Zhuozhao Li <zhuozhao@uchicago.edu>

Bug Fixes¶

Fixed a missing package in the requirements.txt file
Updated version requirements in funcx-endpoint to match the funcx version

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.2.1¶

Released on April 15th, 2021

funcx v0.2.1 includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from:

Daniel S. Katz <d.katz@ieee.org>, Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com>, Yongyan Rao <yongyan.rao@gmail.com>, and Zhuozhao Li <zhuozhao@uchicago.edu>

New Features¶

Cleaner reporting when an older non-compatible Config object is used. Refer: issue 427
Better automated checks at SDK initialization to confirm that the SDK and Endpoint versions are supported by the web-service.
Updated Kubernetes docs and example configs.

Bug Fixes¶

Fixed a bug in funcx-endpoint that caused the ZMQ connections to timeout and crash, terminating the endpoint.
Fixed an unsafe string based version comparison check.
Fixed an issue with poor error reporting when starting non-existent endpoints. Refer: issue 432
Fixed a bug in incorrectly passing the funcx_service_address to the EndpointInterchange.
Several updates to the docs for clarity.
JSON serializer is removed from the FuncXSeralizer mechanism due to issues with not preserving types over serialization (tuples/lists)

funcx & funcx-endpoint v0.2.0¶

Released on April 8th, 2021

funcx v0.2.0 includes contributions (code, tests, reviews, and reports) from:

Ariel Rokem <arokem@gmail.com>, Ben Blaiszik <blaiszik@uchicago.edu>, Ben Galewsky <ben@peartreestudio.net>, Ben Glick <glick@glick.cloud>, Joshua Bryan <josh@globus.org>, Kirill Nagaitsev <knagaitsev@uchicago.edu>, Kyle Chard <chard@uchicago.edu>, pratikpoojary <pratik.poojary@somaiya.edu>, Ryan <rchard@anl.gov>, Yadu Nand Babuji <yadudoc1729@gmail.com>, yongyanrao <yongyan.rao@gmail.com>, and Zhuozhao Li <zhuozhao@uchicago.edu>

Known Issues¶

There is an ongoing stability issue with pyzmq wheels that causes endpoint crashes. Read more about this here. To address this issue, we recommend the following:

# Ensure you are using a GCC version older than v7
gcc --version

# Install pyzmq without the binaries from Pypi:
pip install --no-binary :all: --force-reinstall pyzmq

New Functionality¶

The security architecture has been overhauled. The current sequence of endpoint registration is as follows:
- funcx-endpoint will connect to the funcx web-service and register itself
- Upon registration, the endpoint receives server certificates and connection info.
- funcx-endpoint connects to a forwarder service over an encrypted (Curve25519 elliptic curve) ZMQ channel using the server certificates.
- If the connection is terminated this whole process repeats.

Significant changes to the Config object. All options related to executors have been moved from the top level Config object to the executor object. Refer to the configuration section for more details. Here’s an example of the config change:

This is the old style config:

from funcx_endpoint.endpoint.utils.config import Config
from parsl.providers import LocalProvider

config = Config(
    # Options at the top-level like provider and max_workers_per_node
    # are moved to the executor object
    scaling_enabled=True,
    provider=LocalProvider(
        init_blocks=1,
        min_blocks=1,
        max_blocks=1,
    ),
    max_workers_per_node=2,
    funcx_service_address='https://api.funcx.org/v1'
)

Here is a sample config based on the updated Config object:

from funcx_endpoint.endpoint.utils.config import Config
from funcx_endpoint.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
from parsl.providers import LocalProvider

config = Config(
    executors=[HighThroughputExecutor(
        provider=LocalProvider(
            init_blocks=1,
            min_blocks=0,
            max_blocks=1,
        ),
    )],
    detach_endpoint=True,
    funcx_service_address='https://compute.api.globus.org/v2'
)

The endpoint will now log to ~/.funcx/<ENDPOINT_NAME>/EndpointInterchange.log.
Several updates to logging make logs more concise and cleaner.
The serialization mechanism has been updated to use multiple serialization libraries (dill, pickle)
The funcx-endpoint CLI tool will raise an error message to screen if endpoint registration fails rather than log to a file
Richer HTTP error codes and responses for failure conditions and reporting.

The /submit route response format has changed. Previously, this route would return an error after the first failed task submission attempt. Now, the service will attempt to submit all tasks that the user sends via this route.

This is the old response format, assuming all tasks submit successfully:

{
  "status": "Success",
  "task_uuids": ["task_id_1", "task_id_2", "..."]
}

This is the new response format, where some task submissions have failed:

{
  "response": "batch",
  "results": [
    {
      "status": "Success",
      "task_uuid": "task_id_1",
      "http_status_code": 200
    },
    {
      "status": "Failed",
      "code": 1,
      "task_uuid": "task_id_2",
      "http_status_code": 400,
      "error_args": ["..."]
    },
    "..."
  ]
}

get_batch_status has been renamed to get_batch_result