CCTools 5.3.0 released

The Cooperative Computing Lab is pleased to announce the release of version 5.3.0 of the Cooperative Computing Tools including Parrot, Chirp, Makeflow, WorkQueue, Umbrella, SAND, All-Pairs, Weaver, and other software.

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

This minor release adds several features and bug fixes. Among them:

• [Makeflow]  Several enhancements in garbage collection. (Nick Hazekamp)
• [Makeflow]  Better task state handling when recovering execution log. (Nick Hazekamp)
• [Parrot]    Correct handling of multi-threaded programs. (Patrick Donnelly)
• [Parrot]    Adds parrot_mount, to set arbitrary mount points while parrot is executing. (Douglas Thain)
• [Parrot]    Add --fake-setuid option, for executables that request setuid. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Parrot]    Update cvmfs uri to new convention. (Jakob Blomer)
• [Parrot]    Add --whitelist to restrict filesystem access. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Parrot]    Make special file descriptors invisible to tracee. (Patrick Donnelly)
• [Resource Monitor] Compute approximations of shared resident memory. (Ben Tovar)
• [Resource Monitor] Remove resource_monitorv for static binaries. resource_monitor now handles all cases.  (Ben Tovar)
• [Resource Monitor] Working directories are not tracked by default anymore. Use --follow-chdir instead.  (Ben Tovar)
• [Umbrella]  Support for curateND. (Haiyan Meng)
• [Umbrella]  Support for installing software from package managers. (Haiyan Meng)
• [Work Queue] Adds option -C to read a JSON configuration file. (Ben Tovar)
• [Work Queue] Several bug fixes regarding task/workflow statistics. (Ben Tovar)
• [Work Queue] Master's shutdown option now correctly terminates  workers. (Ben Tovar)
• [Work Queue] Adds --sge-paremeter to ./configure script to personalize the sge_submit_workers script. (Ben Tovar)
• [Work Queue] Adds the executable disk_allocator, to restrict disk usage at the workers. (Nate Kremer-Herman)

Incompatibility warnings:

• Workers from this release do not work correctly with masters from previous releases.

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

• Jakob Blomer
• Neil Butcher
• Patrick Donnelly
• Nathaniel Kremer-Herman
• Nicholas Hazekamp
• Peter Ivie
• Kevin Lannon
• Haiyan Meng
• Tim Shaffer
• Douglas Thain
• Ben Tovar
• Mathias Wolf
• Anna Woodard

Please send any feedback to the CCTools discussion mailing list:

http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/help/

Enjoy!