CCTools version 7.4.9 released

 The Cooperative Computing Lab is pleased to announce the release of version 7.4.9 of the Cooperative Computing Tools including Parrot, Chirp, JX, Makeflow, WorkQueue, and other software.

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

This is a bug fix release:

• [General] Update binary build to OSX-11. (Ben Tovar)
• [General] Several updates to JX documentation. (Douglas Thain)
• [Work Queue] Fix bug where some old files where not deleted from worker's cache. (Ben Tovar)
• [Work Queue] Fix warning message for required size of workers. (Ben Tovar)
• [Work Queue] Add transfers size information to transactions log. (Guanchao Huang)

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

• Andrew Hennessee
• Guanchao Huang
• Kelci Mohrman
• Thanh Son Phung
• David Simonetti
• Barry Sly-Delgado
• Douglas Thain
• Ben Tovar

Please send any feedback to the CCTools discussion mailing list:

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

Enjoy!

CCTools 4.2.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.0 of the Cooperative Computing Tools including Parrot, Chirp, Makeflow, WorkQueue, SAND, All-Pairs, and other software.
The software may be downloaded here: Download CCTools 4.2.0
This release is mostly a bug fix release, but introduces changes to the Work Queue protocol. Thus, workers from 4.2 do not work with masters pre 4.2.
Among the bug fixes and added capabilities are: Among the bug fixes and added capabilities are:

• [General] Support for systemd log journal. (Patrick Donelly)
• [WorkQueue] Several bug fixes (Douglas Thain. Dinesh Rajan, Ben Tovar)
• [WorkQueue] Improvements to resource accounting. (Ben Tovar)
• [WorkQueue] work_queue_graph_log, a script to plot Work Queue's log. (Ben Tovar)
• [WorkQueue] Autosize option for workers to fill Condor slots. (Douglas Thain)
• [WorkQueue] Added several example applications in apps/ (Dinesh Rajan)
• [Chirp] Several bug fixes. (Patrick Donelly)
• [Parrot] Package creation of accessed files for execution repeatability. (Haiyan Meng)
• [Parrot] Correct mmap handling. (Patrick Donelly)
• [Parrot] Fix linking to iRODS. (Patrick Donelly)
• [Parrot] Option to disable CVMFS alien cache. (Ben Tovar)
• [Parrot] Bug fixes targeting CVMFS. (Ben Tovar)

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

• Jakob Blomer
• Dan Bradley
• Peter Bui
• Patrick Donnelly
• Nicholas Hazekamp
• Peter Ivie
• Haiyan Meng
• Dinesh Rajan
• Casey Robinson
• Peter Sempolinski
• Douglas Thain
• Ben Tovar
• Matthias Wolf

Please send any feedback to the CCTools discussion mailing list .