We add our congratulations to James Drews of the University of Wisconsin - Madison for the discovery of J1859+03, a new radio pulsar, within data from the Arecibo Observatory PALFA survey. James backfills the Computer Aided Engineering HTCondor pool with the Einstein@Home boinc client.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.1.2. This development release contains all the bug fixes from the stable release version 8.0.4. Major new features include: partitionable slots can now be split into dynamic slots at negotiation time using new consumption policies; new condor_chirp commands permit updates to job ClassAd attributes to occur in a delayed fashion, reducing the overhead of making the update; there are many Python binding improvements including a new Negotiator class; condor_ssh_to_job now works for grid universe jobs on amazon EC2 resources; new command line options for condor_config_val and condor_history allow them to query remote machines; increased the scalability of the condor_shared_port daemon, condor_queue, and condor_status by increasing concurrency. A complete list of bugs fixed and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.1.2 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.0.4. This new version contains a clipped version of HTCondor for Ubuntu 12.04 on the x86_64 architecture, and a fix for condor_ssh_to_job incorrectly removing jobs when cgroups are used. A complete list of bugs fixed can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.0.4 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

In this UW-Madison news story, Miron Livny offers perspective on finding the Higgs boson particle and the computational collaboration that supported this and other scientific research.

as reported by Ian Cottam in his blog for the Software Sustainability Institute at the University of Manchester. Ian appreciates that HTCondor is easy to install, runs on many platforms, and contains features such as DAGMan to order the execution of sets of jobs, making the system even more useful.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.0.3. This new version contains a fix for DAGMan recovery mode when using Pegasus-generated SUBDAGs, and a fix for condor_ssh_to_job when using PID namespaces. A complete list of bugs fixed can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.0.3 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.