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Practice Problems for Makeflow
Use the information in the Makeflow page to learn more about Makeflow, if necessary. Problem 1Write a Makeflow to check if "Shakespeare speak" still existsObjectivesYou will be able to:
Problem StatementYou will compare the words seen in the works of Shakespeare with the words currently in use in the English language and identify those words that are still in use. You will compare the words of Shakespeare listed in each of these text files:
Each file contains all the words found in a work of Shakespeare identified in the filename. For your convenience, each word is listed in a separate line to make it easier to scan and read them. You will compare the words in each of these files with the dictionary provided in Unix systems (/usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words). If a word is found to exist in the dictionary, you should print the word followed by the string "Art spoken ever and anon!". If not, you should print the word followed by the string "Ne'er spoken ever!". To complete this problem, you will create a Makeflow script that decomposes the problem into concurrent tasks. Your script should contain 5 rules, each describing a search of the dictionary for the words in a file, or in other words, one rule per file. You will then run this Makeflow using the Torque batch submission system as described here. Hint: To read each file and compare the words listed in it against the dictionary, you can use this simple python program: shakespeare-compare.py. You will then have this program executed remotely by specifying the filename containing the words to check. For example, to check if the words in hamlet.txt exist in the dictionary, run: python shakespeare-compare.py hamlet.txt
Create Makeflow rules that check each of the files by running this program. Problem 2Configure Makeflow to run on multiple platforms
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