Each party follows these steps to connect to a started aggregator.

1. Open the project and click the Federated Learning experiment.

2. Click View setup information and click the download icon to download the party connector script.

3. Each party must configure the party connector script and provide valid credentials to run the script. This is what a sample completed party connector script looks like:

   from ibm_watsonx_ai import APIClient
   
   wml_credentials = {
   "url": "https://us-south.ml.cloud.ibm.com",
   "apikey": "<API KEY>"
   }
   
   wml_client = APIClient(wml_credentials)
   
   wml_client.set.default_project("XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX")
   
   party_metadata = {
   
           wml_client.remote_training_systems.ConfigurationMetaNames.DATA_HANDLER: {
   
           "name": "MnistSklearnDataHandler",
   
           "path": "example.mnist_sklearn_data_handler",
   
           "info": {
   
           "npz_file":"./example_data/example_data.npz"
   
   }
   
   party = wml_client.remote_training_systems.create_party("XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX", party_metadata)
   
   party.monitor_logs()
   party.run(aggregator_id="XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX", asynchronous=False)
   

   Parameters:

   • api_key:
     Your IAM API key. To create a new API key, go to the IBM Cloud website, and click Create an IBM Cloud Pak for Data API key under Manage > Access(IAM) > API keys.

   Optional: If you're reusing a script from a different project, you can copy the updated project_id, aggregator_id and experiment_id from the setup information window and copy them into the script.

4. Install watsonx.ai Runtime with the latest Federated Learning package if you have not yet done so:

   • If you are using M-series on a Mac, install the latest package with the following script:

   #  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   #  (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2023.
   #  https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
   #  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   #
   #
   # Script to create a conda environment and install ibm_watsonx_ai with
   # the dependencies required for Federated Learning on MacOS.
   # The name of the conda environment to be created is passed as the first argument.
   #
   # Note: This script requires miniforge to be installed for conda.
   #
   
   usage=". install_fl_rt23.1_macos.sh conda_env_name"
   
   arch=$(uname -m)
   os=$(uname -s)
   
   if (($# < 1))
   then
   echo $usage
   exit
   fi
   
   ENAME=$1
   
   conda create -y -n ${ENAME} python=3.10
   conda activate ${ENAME}
   pip install ibm_watsonx_ai
   
   if [ "$os" == "Darwin" -a "$arch" == "arm64" ]
   then
   conda install -y -c apple tensorflow-deps
   fi
   
   python - <<EOF
   import pkg_resources
   import platform
   import subprocess
   
   package = 'ibm_watsonx_ai'
   extra   = 'fl-rt23.1-py3.10'
   extra_  = extra.replace('.','-')
   extra_s = '; extra == "{}"'
   remove  = None
   add     = []
   
   if platform.system() == "Darwin" and platform.processor() == "arm":
       remove  = 'tensorflow'
       add     = ['tensorflow-macos==2.9.2']
   
   pkgs = pkg_resources.working_set.by_key[package].requires(extras=[extra])
   pkgs = [ p.__str__().removesuffix(extra_s.format(extra)).removesuffix(extra_s.format(extra_)) for p in pkgs if ( extra in p.__str__() or extra_ in p.__str__() ) and ( not remove or remove not in p.__str__() )]
   
   print( "Installing standard packages for {}[{}]:{}".format(package,extra,pkgs) )
   print( "Installing additional packages:{}".format(add) )
   
   cmd = [ 'pip', 'install'] + add + pkgs
   
   subprocess.run( cmd )
   EOF
   

   • Otherwise install with the following command:
     pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple/ 'ibm_watsonx_ai[fl-rt23.1-py3.10]'

5. When your configuration is complete and you save the party connector script, enter this command in a command line to run the script:

   python3 rts_<RTS Name>_<RTS ID>.py