Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Announcement: CCTools 7.0.4 released

The Cooperative Computing Lab is pleased to announce the release of version 7.0.4 of the Cooperative Computing Tools including Parrot, Chirp, JX, 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 with some bug fixes. Among them:

  • [General] --without-static-libgcc flag to configure script for compilation on Stampede2. (Ben Tovar)
  • [WorkQueue] Consider workers across different factories. (Bo Marchman)
  • [WorkQueue] Input files from tasks that exhausted resources where not being removed from the worker. (Ben Tovar)
  • [Makeflow] Communicate cores, memory, and disk resources to SLURM, SGE, and Torque (Nick Hazekamp)
  • [ResourceMonitor] Fix bug when computing maximum cores. (Ben Tovar)
  • [JX] Improved parsing errors and documentation. (Tim Shaffer, Douglas Thain, Ben Tovar)

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

  • Nathaniel Kremer-Herman
  • Nicholas Hazekamp
  • Bo Marchman
  • 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!

Monday, August 20, 2018

DISC REU Videos 2018

Our summer REU students in the DISC program produced an impressive set of videos describing their summer research projects -- check out the playlist!