Monday, November 23, 2015

CCTools 5.3.0 released

The Cooperative Computing Lab is pleased to announce the release of version 5.3.0 of the Cooperative Computing Tools including Parrot, Chirp, Makeflow, WorkQueue, Umbrella, SAND, All-Pairs, Weaver, and other software.

The software may be downloaded here:
http://www.cse.nd.edu/~ccl/software/download

This minor release adds several features and bug fixes. Among them:

  • [Makeflow]  Several enhancements in garbage collection. (Nick Hazekamp)
  • [Makeflow]  Better task state handling when recovering execution log. (Nick Hazekamp)
  • [Parrot]    Correct handling of multi-threaded programs. (Patrick Donnelly)
  • [Parrot]    Adds parrot_mount, to set arbitrary mount points while parrot is executing. (Douglas Thain)
  • [Parrot]    Add --fake-setuid option, for executables that request setuid. (Tim Shaffer)
  • [Parrot]    Update cvmfs uri to new convention. (Jakob Blomer)
  • [Parrot]    Add --whitelist to restrict filesystem access. (Tim Shaffer)
  • [Parrot]    Make special file descriptors invisible to tracee. (Patrick Donnelly)
  • [Resource Monitor] Compute approximations of shared resident memory. (Ben Tovar)
  • [Resource Monitor] Remove resource_monitorv for static binaries. resource_monitor now handles all cases.  (Ben Tovar)
  • [Resource Monitor] Working directories are not tracked by default anymore. Use --follow-chdir instead.  (Ben Tovar)
  • [Umbrella]  Support for curateND. (Haiyan Meng)
  • [Umbrella]  Support for installing software from package managers. (Haiyan Meng)
  • [Work Queue] Adds option -C to read a JSON configuration file. (Ben Tovar)
  • [Work Queue] Several bug fixes regarding task/workflow statistics. (Ben Tovar)
  • [Work Queue] Master's shutdown option now correctly terminates  workers. (Ben Tovar)
  • [Work Queue] Adds --sge-paremeter to ./configure script to personalize the sge_submit_workers script. (Ben Tovar)
  • [Work Queue] Adds the executable disk_allocator, to restrict disk usage at the workers. (Nate Kremer-Herman)


Incompatibility warnings:

  • Workers from this release do not work correctly with masters from previous releases.


Thanks goes to the contributors for many features, bug fixes, and tests:

  • Jakob Blomer
  • Neil Butcher
  • Patrick Donnelly
  • Nathaniel Kremer-Herman
  • Nicholas Hazekamp
  • Peter Ivie
  • Kevin Lannon
  • Haiyan Meng
  • Tim Shaffer
  • Douglas Thain
  • Ben Tovar
  • Mathias Wolf
  • Anna Woodard

Please send any feedback to the CCTools discussion mailing list:

http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/help/

Enjoy!

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