CCTools 3.1.0 Released

Created on July 20, 2010 by Douglas Thain

2010

We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.0 of the Cooperative Computing Tools, including Parrot, Chirp, Makeflow, Work Queue, SAND, 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 and Work Queue: Multiple performance and scalability improvements, including reduced CPU consumption, better management of output files, and more
  • Parrot: New support for Amazon S3 as a remote filesystem. Multiple bug fixes and portability updates for Linux.
  • Chirp Server: New support for HDFS as a backend filesystem. This allows you to combine the capacity and scalability of HDFS with the wide-area security and accessibility provided by Chirp.
  • SAND Assembler: Improved performance, storage management, and integration with the Celera assembler.
  • Lots of little bug fixes and improvements.

    • Thanks to all who contributed to this release: Michael Albrecht, Peter Bui, Anthony Canino, Patrick Donnelly, Markiyan Samborskyy, Andrew Thrasher, Rodney Walker, and Li Yu.



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