Wednesday, August 30, 2017

2017 DISC Summer REU Conclusion

This summer, we hosted 9 outstanding undergraduate students in our summer REU program in Data Intensive Scientific Computing (DISC).  Our guests spent the summer working with faculty in labs across campus in fields such as astronomy, high energy physics, bioinformatics, data visualization, and distributed systems.  And, they enjoyed some summer fun around South Bend.

Check out these short YouTube clips that explain each research project:



And here they are presenting at our summer research symposium: 


If you would like to participate, please apply for the 2018 edition of the DISC REU program at Notre Dame.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Announcement: CCTools 6.1.6 released

The Cooperative Computing Lab is pleased to announce the release of version 6.1.6 of the Cooperative Computing Tools including Parrot, Chirp, Makeflow, WorkQueue, Umbrella, Prune, SAND, All-Pairs, Weaver, and other software.

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

This is a minor release which adds some bug fixes. Among them:

  • [General] Fix bug configuring perl paths. (Ben Tovar)
  • [General] Fix bug on JX inline querying strings. (Tim Shaffer)
  • [Makeflow] Fix bug when waiting on a local process. (Douglas Thain)
  • [Makeflow] Enforce local resources limits. (Douglas Thain)
  • [Makeflow] Save failed outputs to aid debugging. (Tim Shaffer)
  • [Makeflow] Fix bug when parsing of some command lines. (Ben Tovar)
  • [WorkQueue] Transactions log adds workers disconnection reason. (Ben Tovar)
  • [WorkQueue] Fix bug when checking version of gnuplot in work_queue_graph_log. (Ben Tovar)
  • [WQmaker] Support dynamic environments. (Nicholas Hazekamp)

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

  • Nathaniel Kremer-Herman
  • Nicholas Hazekamp
  • Peter Ivie
  • Tim Shaffer
  • Douglas Thain
  • Ben Tovar
  • Kyle Sweeney
  • Chao Zheng

Please send any feedback to the CCTools discussion mailing list:

http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/community/forum

Enjoy!