Rust Fields is a Rust-based implementation of the Aggregate Computing paradigm, that lets you program the behaviour of a Collective Adaptive System by manipulating Computational Fields.

This framework is composed of the following modules:

• RuFi Core: provides the basic concepts and functionalities for the RuFi framework.
• RuFi Distributed: provides types and functionalities for executing RuFi programs in a distributed fashion.

This repository is structured as follows:

• crates: contains the library crates of the RuFi framework.
• examples: contains some binary applications with examples of RuFi usage.

In order to run the tests, you'll need to open a terminal inside the project root folder and follow the instructions below:

cargo test

In order to run only the tests of a specific crate, you can use the following command:

`cargo test -p <crate_name>`

for example:

cargo test -p rf-core

In order to run any example, you'll need to open a terminal inside the project root folder and follow the instructions below:

• Local gradient: This example will execute a gradient aggregate algorithm inside a single process. The node topology is the following: [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5]. In order to launch the program and see the output, run:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.local.yml up

• Distributed gradient: This example will launch 5 different processes, each one representing a node in the topology and communicating with the others. The node topology is the following: [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5]. In order to launch the program and see the output, run:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.distributed.yml up

N.B It may happen that some nodes take longer to output the correct value.