working on asynchronous tasks

README.md

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 * django
 * python web framework & python backend code
 
-### Asynchronous task queue
-Celery is a powerful, production-ready asynchronous job queue, which allows 
-you to run time-consuming Python functions in the background. A Celery powered 
-application can respond to user requests quickly, while long-running tasks 
-are passed onto the queue.
-
-http://michal.karzynski.pl/blog/2014/05/18/setting-up-an-asynchronous-task-queue-for-django-using-celery-redis/
 
 
 ### Datastorage layer

docs/AsynchronousTask.md

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+### Asynchronous task queue
+
+
+Required to run the tellurium integrations in a process outside of the request.
+
+The absolute simplest way to do this (on a Unix-like operating system, at least) is to fork():
+
+if os.fork() == 0:
+    do_long_thing()
+    sys.exit(0)
+… continue with request …
+
+This has some downsides, though (ex, if the server crashes, the “long thing” will be lost)… Which is where, ex, Celery can come in handy. It will keep track of the jobs that need to be done, the results of jobs (success/failure/whatever) and make it easy to run the jobs on other machines.
+
+Using Celery with a Redis backend (see Kombu's Redis transport) is very simple, so I would recommend looking there first.
+
+
+Celery is a powerful, production-ready asynchronous job queue, which allows 
+you to run time-consuming Python functions in the background. A Celery powered 
+application can respond to user requests quickly, while long-running tasks 
+are passed onto the queue.
+
+http://michal.karzynski.pl/blog/2014/05/18/setting-up-an-asynchronous-task-queue-for-django-using-celery-redis/
+
+## Celery
+Celery is a task queue with batteries included.
+Celery uses “brokers” to pass messages between a Django Project and the Celery workers.
+
+http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/first-steps-with-celery.html#first-steps
+http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/django/first-steps-with-django.html
+
+pip install celery
+
+Message broker
+* RabbitMQ
+sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
+* Redis
+
+* Database

requirements.txt

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 # requirements for web app
 django==1.10.2
-django-debug-toolbar==1.6
+django-debug-toolbar==1.6
+celery==3.1.18