distann

Distributed ANN Serving

Running the frontend

cd frontend
python3 -m http.server (for linux and mac)

Then go to your browser to access http://localhost:8000/

Compiling and running the backend

Prerequisite:

• Install cmake and g++ in your machine
• Install drogon in your machine, ensuring we can access <drogon/drogon.h>. Follow its official documentation to see the instruction based on your OS using this link https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon/wiki/ENG-02-Installation

If you can't install drogon on windows:

• On Windows if you have problems installing drogon in your machine, you can use install and run the server on WSL by following the steps in this website: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

• After you have installed WSL you would follow the Install by source in Linux guide in the installation website.

• You would also want to install git to access your repository

  sudo apt install git
  

Before cloning repo make sure you have followed all drogon installation steps found here. https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon/wiki/ENG-02-Installation

• To clone a repository on git follow the steps here: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/cloning-a-repository#cloning-a-repository. You would need your Github username and create a token (settings -> Developer settings -> Personal Access Tokens -> Tokens -> Generate new token).

• When generating token make sure you toggle 'repo' on the select scopes section to allow you to have acess to the repo as it is private.

1. Compile the backend

   cd backend/build
   cmake ..
   make
   

   The last command will generate an executable called backend (or backend.exe in Windows). On linux or Mac can test backend by running ./backend in terminal, then go to http://localhost:9000

   For more detailed instructions, see the README in the backend folder.