http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor High Throughput Computing http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/images/white_bird_logo.png http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor manual/v8.0/10_3Stable_Release.html The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.0.0. This release is the first in the new stable series. The major version number changed because of the project rename to HTCondor and not because of major incompatibility with the version 7.8 stable series. This new version contains Bosco, support for EC2 Spot instances, interactive jobs, improved job sandboxing, native python API and several new tools. A complete list of bugs fixed and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.0.0 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 CDT http://bosco.opensciencegrid.org/2013/06/bosco-1-2-release/ Bosco is a client for Linux and Mac operating systems for submitting jobs to remote batch systems without administrator assistance. It is designed for end-users, and only requires ssh access to one or more cluster front-ends. Target clusters can be HTCondor, LSF, PBS, SGE or SLURM managed resources. The new Bosco 1.2 release is much easier to install, will handle more jobs, will send clearer error messages, and makes it easier to specify the memory you need inside the clusters you connect to. Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 CDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-30/running_stochastic_models_on_htcondor.html An article published at HPCwire highlights research out of Brigham Young University with a goal to demonstrate an alternative model to High Performance Computing (HPC) for water resource stakeholders by leveraging High Throughput Computing (HTC) with HTCondor. Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 CDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-21/cern_google_and_the_future_of_global_science_initiatives.html The HPCwire: CERN, Google Drive Future of Global Science Initiatives article describes the computing environment of the ATLAS project at CERN. HTCondor and now Google Compute Engine aid the extensive collision analysis effort for ATLAS. Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 CDT manual/v7.9/9_3Development_Release.html The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 7.9.6. This is the final release of the 7.9 series. This release contains new tools, VMware player support, Linux out of memory killer hints, python bindings, new configuration parameters, and many bug fixes. A complete list of bugs fixed and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 7.9.6 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 CDT manual/v7.9/9_3Development_Release.html The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 7.9.5. This release introduces a new tool - condor_tail - which can be used to see files in the sandbox of a running job. It improves to the transfer queue with a fair share policy and per-user transfer statistics. Per-submitter time limits are now honored by the Negotiator. There are bug fixes for grid universe, dagman, the Windows keyboard daemon and more. A complete list of bugs fixed and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 7.9.5 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 CDT http://www.hpcinthecloud.com/ct/uz5597866Biz16505092 Contributor Miha Ahronovitz traces the history of high throughput computing (HTC), noting the particularly enthusiastic response from the high energy physics world and the role of HTC in such important discoveries as the Higgs boson. As one of the biggest generators of data, this community has been dealing with the "big data" deluge long before "big data" assumed its position as the buzzword du jour. Read more at HPC In the Cloud. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 CDT manual/v7.8/9_3Stable_Release.html The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 7.8.8. This release contains bug fixes for reconnection failure when using CCB, introduces automatic retries for some glexec errors, and fixes several other grid related bugs. A complete list of bugs fixed can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 7.8.8 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 CDT http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/HTCondorWeek2013/ We want to invite you to HTCondor Week 2013 , our annual HTCondor user conference, in beautiful Madison, WI April 29-May 3, 2013. (HTCondor Week was formerly named Condor Week, matching a name change for the software.) We will again host HTCondor Week at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, a state of the art facility for academic and private research specifically designed to foster private and public collaboration. It provides HTCondor Week attendees a compelling environment to attend tutorials and talks from HTCondor developers and users like you. It also provides many comfortable spaces for one-on-one or small group collaborations throughout the week. This year we continue our partnership with the Paradyn Tools Project, making this year Paradyn/HTCondor Week 2013. There will be a full slate of tutorials and talk for both HTCondor and Paradyn. Our current development series, 7.9, is well underway toward our upcoming production release. When you attend, you will learn how to take advantage of the latest features such as per-job PID namespaces, cgroup enforced resource limits, Python bindings, CPU affinity, BOSCO for submitting jobs to remote batch systems without administrator assistance, EC2 spot instance support, and a variety of speed and memory optimizations. You'll also get a peek into our longer term development plans--something you can only get at HTCondor Week! We will have a variety of in-depth tutorials, talks, and panels where you can not only learn more about HTCondor, but you can also learn how other people are using and deploying HTCondor. Best of all you can establish contacts and learn best practices from people in industry, government and academia who are using HTCondor to solve hard problems, many of which may be similar to those facing you. Speaking of learning from the community, we'd love to have you give a talk at HTCondor Week. Talks are 20 minutes long and are a great way share your ideas and get feedback from the community. If you have a compelling use of HTCondor you'd like to share, let Alan De Smet know (adesmet@cs.wisc.edu) and he'll help you out. More information on speaking at HTCondor Week is available at the HTCondor Week web site. You can register, get the hotel details and see the agenda overview on the HTCondor Week 2013 site. See you soon in Madison! Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 CST manual/v7.9/9_3Development_Release.html The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 7.9.4. This release supports per job PID namespaces for Linux RHEL 6, improvements to the resource usage of the EC2 GAHP, support for capping the size of input and output file transfer, and new analysis modes for condor_q -analyze. A complete list of bugs fixed and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 7.9.4 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 CST manual/v7.9/9_3Development_Release.html The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 7.9.3. This release contains all of the bug fixes added to the 7.8.7 stable release. The glexec problems we warned about in the 7.9.2 release notes have been fixed. Dynamic slots can now be given CPU affinity, there are number of improvements in the way grid universe jobs are handled, and there are some experimental improvements to condor_q -analyze A complete list of bugs fixed and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 7.9.3 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 CST