Distributed Implementation

This guide is for the Rust version of the coursework, which is offered as an optional extension.

In this stage, you are required to create an implementation that uses a number of AWS nodes to cooperatively calculate the new state of the Game of Life board, and communicate state between machines over a network.

Below is a series of suggested steps for approaching the problem, but you are not required to follow this sequence, and can jump straight to implementing the more advanced versions of the system if you feel confident about it.

Your implementation will be marked against the success criteria outlined here.

Step 3

The local controller should be able to output the state of the board after all turns have completed as a PGM image.

Test

To test your implementation, type the following in the terminal of your local controller.

cargo test --release --test pgm -- --threads 1