Announcement: CCTools 6.1.0. released

The Cooperative Computing Lab is pleased to announce the release of version 6.1.0 of the Cooperative Computing Tools including Parrot, Chirp, 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 major which adds several features and bug fixes. Among them:

• [General]  IPv4 and IPv6 mode handling fixes. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Grow]  Fuse module for GROW-FS. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Makeflow]  Updated manual. (Douglas Thain)
• [Makeflow]  Support for Mesos. (Charles Zheng)
• [Makeflow]  Support for Singularity. (Kyle Sweeney)
• [Makeflow]  --shared-fs option. (Nick Hazekamp)
• [Makeflow]  --preserve option for per rule caching. (Pierce Cunneen)
• [Parrot]  Fix ld.so and exec bugs. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Parrot]  Fix handling of namespace symlinks. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Parrot]  Bind/connect on AF_UNIX sockets. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Parrot]  Several bug fixes. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Parrot]  parrot_namespace to use parrot inside parrot. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Parrot]  Add fixed and warped PIDs. (Douglas Thain)
• [Prune]     Several bug fixes. (Peter Ivie)
• [ResourceMonitor]  Resource per task snapshots, --snapshot-file. (Ben Tovar)
• [Umbrella]  Several bug fixes. (Haiyan Meng)
• [WorkQueue]  Resource per task snapshots, q.enable_monitoring_snapshots. (Ben Tovar)
• [WorkQueue]  Several bug fixes. (Ben Tovar)
• [WorkQueue]  Custom environments for wq factory. (Kyle Sweeney)
• [WorkQueue]  Several fixes to wq factory. (Nate Kremer-Herman)
• [WQ_Maker]   Several bug fixes, update to latest version of maker. (Nick Hazekamp)

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

• Jakob Blomer
• Pierce Cunneen
• Patrick Donnelly
• Nathaniel Kremer-Herman
• Nicholas Hazekamp
• Peter Ivie
• Haiyan Meng
• 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!