Announcement: CCTools 6.2.0 released

The Cooperative Computing Lab is pleased to announce the release of version 6.2.0 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:

• [JX] A superset of JSON to dynamically describe workflows, see doc/jx.html. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Makeflow] Support for Amazon EC2. (Kyle Sweeney, Douglas Thain)
• [Makeflow]  Singularity support bug fixes. (Kyle Sweeney)
• [Parrot] Fix CVMFS initialization. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Prune] Several bug fixes. (Peter Ivie)
• [ResourceMonitor] Measurement snapshots by observing log files, --snapshot-events. (Ben Tovar)
• [WorkQueue] Compressed updates to the catalog server. (Nick Hazekamp, Douglas Thain)
• [WorkQueue] work_queue_factory uses computed maximum worker capacity of the master. (Nate Kremer-Herman)
• [WorkQueue] Several bug fixes. (Nick Hazekamp, Ben Tovar)
• [WQ_Maker] Several bug fixes. (Nick Hazekamp)

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

• Jakob Blomer
• Nathaniel Kremer-Herman
• Nicholas Hazekamp
• Peter Ivie
• 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!