After a long social media absence, we’ve resuscitated our Twitter acount where we’ve been posting about HTCondor news, events, philosophy and other distributed systems related banter. Come find us and chime in! https://twitter.com/HTCondor

Save the date and register now for another Campus Workshop on distributed high-throughput computing (dHTC), February 8-9, 2021, offered by the Partnership to Advance Throughput computing (PATh). All campus cyberinfrastructure (CI) staff are invited to attend!

Feb 8: Training on Using and Facilitating the Use of dHTC and the Open Science Grid (OSG), 2-5pm ET. seats limited; register ASAP!
Feb 9: dHTC Virtual Office Hours with breakout rooms for discussion on all things dHTC, including OSG services for campuses and CC* awards, 2-5pm ET. unlimited seats

While there is no fee for either day, registration is required for participants to receive virtual meeting room details and instructions for training accounts via email. Please feel free to send any questions about the event to events@opensciencegrid.org.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.9.10. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.8.12 stable release. Enhancements in the release include: Fix bug where negotiator stopped making matches when group quotas are used; Support OAuth, SciTokens, and Kerberos credentials in local universe jobs; The Python schedd.submit method now takes a Submit object; DAGMan can now optionally run a script when a job goes on hold; DAGMan now provides a method for inline jobs to share submit descriptions; Can now add arbitrary tags to condor annex instances; Runs the "singularity test" before running the a singularity job. Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.9.10 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.8.12. A stable series release contains significant bug fixes. Highlights of this release are: Added a family of version comparison functions to ClassAds; Increased default Globus proxy key length to meet current NIST guidance. More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.8.12 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

Recognizing the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s leadership role in research computing, the National Science Foundation announced this month that the Madison campus will be home to a five-year, 22.5 million dollar initiative to advance high-throughput computing. The Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) is driven by the growing need for throughput computing across the entire spectrum of research institutions and disciplines. The partnership will advance computing technologies and extend adoption of these technologies by researchers and educators. Read the full article: https://morgridge.org/story/national-science-foundation-establishes-a-partnership-to-advance-throughput-computing/

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.9.9. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.8.11 stable release. Enhancements in the release include: The RPM packages require globus, munge, scitokens, and voms from EPEL; Improved cgroup memory policy settings that set both hard and soft limit; Cgroup memory usage reporting no longer includes the kernel buffer cache; Numerous Python binding improvements, see version history; Can create a manifest of files on the execute node at job start and finish; Added provisioner nodes to DAGMan, allowing users to provision resources; DAGMan can now produce .dot graphs without running the workflow. Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.9.9 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.