We are pleased to announce the release of version 7.7. of the Cooperative Computing Tools from the University of Notre Dame, including TaskVine, Work Queue, Makeflow, Parrot, Chirp, and other software.
- Docs: https://cctools.readthedocs.io/
- Download: http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/download
- Forum: http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/community/forum
This is a feature release that primarily improves the scalability and performance of TaskVine:
Main Features:
- TaskVine workers now perform transfers asynchronously while communicating with manager, by @BarrySlyDelgado
- TaskVine Serverless function execution simplified and accelerated by @tphung3
- Improved integration of Parsl and TaskVine by @tphung3
- Improved scheduler performance in Work Queue and TaskVine by @colinthomas-z80
- Multiple improvements to reliability at scale with physics applications by @btovar
- Change to API for cancelling tasks: all tasks are now returned by
vine_waitby @dthain - Change to serverless resource management: functions consume library resources by @dthain
- Improved visualization by @JinZhou5042
- New environment.yml for development dependencies by @thieber22
Full Changelog: nightly...release/7.7.0
