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/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 manual/v7.8/9_3Stable_Release.html The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 7.8.7. This release contains several bug fixes related to grid jobs, including EC2 resource jobs. It has bug fixes for glexec, privilege separation, condor_chirp, and a bug that prevented HTCondor from being stopped on system shutdown on Red Hat Linux systems. A complete list of bugs fixed can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 7.8.7 and source code are available from our Downloads page. Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 CST manual/v7.9/9_3Development_Release.html The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 7.9.2. Now with more HT. This release contains all of the bug fixes added to the 7.8.6 stable release, and most of those added to the upcoming 7.8.7 stable release. This release also contains improvements in DAGMan, use of cgroups, and changes to improve the privacy of user data. This release has known problems with glexec that we expect to have fixed in the next developer release. Users of glexec should skip this release. A complete list of bugs and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 7.9.2 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 CST security/vulnerabilities/CONDOR-2012-0003.html The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.8.6. which contains an important security fix that was incorrectely documented as being in the 7.8.5 release. This release is otherwise identical to the 7.8.5 release. Affected users should upgrade as soon as possible. More details on the security issue can be found here. Condor binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 CDT http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor In order to resolve a lawsuit challenging the University of Wisconsin-Madison's use of the "Condor" trademark, the University has agreed to begin referring to its Condor software as "HTCondor" (pronounced "aitch-tee-condor"). The letters at the start of the new name ("HT") derive from the software's primary objective: to enable high throughput computing, often abbreviated as HTC. Starting in the end of October and through November of this year, you will begin to see this change reflected on our web site, documentation, web URLs, email lists, and wiki. While the name of the software is changing, nothing about the naming or usage of the command-line tools, APIs, environment variables, or source code will change. Portals, procedures, scripts, gateways, and other code built on top of the Condor software should not have to change at all when HTCondor is installed. Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 CDT manual/v7.9/9_3Development_Release.html The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.9.1. This is a development release which includes many new features, as well as all bug and security fixes from 7.8.5. See the Version History for a complete list of changes. Condor 7.9.1 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 CDT manual/v7.8/9_3Stable_Release.html#SECTION001031000000000000000 The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.8.5, which includes fixes for several bugs. Details on obugs fixed can be found here, and Condor binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page. Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 CDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/9/red-hat-updates-messaging-realtime-and-grid-platform-with-enterprise-mrg-2-2 This Red Hat press release describes updates in the new 2.2 release. New features increase security and expand cloud readiness with jobs that can be submitted to use the Condor Deltacloud API. Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 CDT