CCTools 5.4.0 released

The Cooperative Computing Lab is pleased to announce the release of version 5.4.0 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:

• [Catalog]  Catalog server communication is now done using JSON encoded queries and replies. (Douglas Thain)
• [Makeflow] --skip-file-check added to mitigate overhead on network file systems. (Nick Hazekamp)
• [Makeflow] Added amazon batch job interface. (Charles Shinaver)
• [Resource Monitor] Network bandwidth, bytes received, and sent are now recorded. (Ben Tovar)
• [Work Queue] Tasks may be grouped into categories, for resource control and fast abort. (Ben Tovar)
• [Work Queue] work_queue_pool was renamed to work_queue_factory. (Douglas Thain)
• [Work Queue] --condor-requirements to specify arbitrary HTCondor requirements in worker_queue_factory. (Chao Zheng)
• [Work Queue] --factory-timeout to terminate worker_queue_factory when no master is active. (Neil Butcher)
• [Work Queue] Compile-time option to specify default local settings in    sge_submit_workers. (Ben Tovar)
• [Umbrella]   Several bugfixes. (Haiyan Meng, Alexander Vyushkov)
• [Umbrella]   Added OSF, and S3 communication. (Haiyan Meng)
• [Umbrella]   Added EC2 execution engine. (Haiyan Meng)
• [Parrot] Several bug-fixes for memory mappings. (Patrick Donnelly)
• [Parrot] All compiled services are shown under / (Tim Shaffer)
• [Parrot] POSIX directory semantics. (Tim Shaffer)
• [Parrot] Added new syscalls from Linux kernel 4.3. (Patrick Donnelly)

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
• Alexander VyushkovRodney Walker
• Mathias Wolf
• Anna Woodard
• Chao Zheng

Please send any feedback to the CCTools discussion mailing list: http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/help/ Enjoy!