We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.1 of the Cooperative Computing Tools, including Parrot, Chirp, Makeflow, Work Queue, SAND, All-Pairs, and other software. The software may be downloaded here: http://www.cse.nd.edu/~ccl/software/download.shtml
New features in this release include:
Makeflow: Fixed bugs relating to batch submission to Condor on MacOS, and to non-standard SGE installations. Improved support for whole directory transfer, and translation of file names when necessary.
Work Queue: Added support for workers to discover masters associated with a project via the catalog. Improved system throughput when running at full capacity. Added a detailed log file and new API entry points.
All-Pairs: Added support for execution-time sampling, concurrency control, and integration with sequence alignment functions. Documentation improved.
Chirp: Improved support for HDFS, including reporting server capacity, more robust initialization, and authentication pass-through.
An improved test suite for all components.
Lots of minor improvements throughout.
Thanks to all who contributed to this release: Michael Albrecht, Peter Bui, Anthony Canino, Patrick Donnelly, Li Yu.
And, thanks to Donald Barre, Colin Dewey, and Rodney Walker for bug reports.