CCTools 3.6.1 Released!

The Cooperative Computing Lab is pleased to announce the release of version 3.6.1 of the Cooperative Computing Tools, including Parrot, Chirp, Makeflow, WorkQueue, SAND, All-Pairs, and other software.

This is a bug fix release of version 3.6.0. No new features were added.

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

Changes:

• [Work Queue] Fixes bugs that resulted in a cancelled task becoming a zombie. [Dinesh Rajan]


• [Makeflow] Various corrections to Makeflow manual and html documentation. [Li Yu]


• [Makeflow] -I and -O options now correctly output file list to stdout. [Li Yu]


• [*] Added missing debug flag for ldflags in configure. [Douglas Thain]


• [Work Queue] Now correctly removes directories during cleanup. [Dinesh Rajan]


• [Chirp] -b is now documented in the man/-h page. [Patrick Donnelly]


• [Sand] Fixed a wrong error message. [Peter Bui, Li Yu]


• [Catalog Server] -T option now properly accepts an argument. [Patrick Donnelly]


• [*] Fixed a bug where the wrong version of perl was used in configure. [Dinesh Rajan]

Thanks goes to the contributors for this release: Dinesh Rajan, Patrick Donnelly, Peter Bui, Li Yu, and Douglas Thain.

Enjoy!

Applied Cyber Infrastructure Class at U. Arizona

The Applied Cyber Infrastructure Concepts course at the University of Arizona makes use of the Cooperative Computing Tools to teach principles of large scale distributed computing. The project-based course introduced fundamental concepts and tools for analyzing large datasets on national computing resources and commercial cloud providers. For the final project, students developed an appliance for annotating multiple rice genomes using MAKER software, distributed across Amazon and FutureGrid resources via the Work Queue framework. They also developed a web application to visualize the performance and utilization of each cloud appliance in real-time, overall progress of the rice annotation process, and integrated the final results into a genome browser.

- Nirav Merchant and Eric Lyons, University of Arizona