Thursday, July 31, 2014

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
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