Condor News

The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.4.0. This first release in a new stable series includes all new features added in the 7.3 development series. See the Version History for a complete list of changes. Condor 7.4.0 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

generated for both data analysis and visualization efforts with XD award winners: University of Tennessee (see the press release) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin (as well as this press release). These TeraGrid eXtremeDigital Resource (XD) awards from the NSF will enable a center for Remote Data Analysis and Visualization (RDAV) research.

The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.3.2. This release improves the behavior of the checkpoint server in mixed 32/64 bit architecture pools, provides a new tool called condor_ssh_to_job to allow interactive debugging of running jobs, some performance enhancements, lazy log file processing for DAGMan jobs, plugins for utilizing a host's power management capabilities, and many other new features in addition to many bug fixes. Please see Version History for a complete list of changes. Condor 7.3.2 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

as code that adds value, in this eWeek.com article about Red Hat's innovative business model.

a recipient of a Campus Technology Innovators Award. This Campus Technology article describes each of the award winners. Congratulations to Purdue and all contributors to DiaGrid!

The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.3.1. This release dramatically improves the performance of DAGman for large dags. This is the first release with preview support for a multi-threaded collector, which is useful for large pool of machines with high-latency links to the collector. There are my other smaller bug fixes. See the Version History for a complete list of changes. Condor 7.3.1 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.2.3. This release adds standard universe support for Debian 5.0 on x86_64. It also fixes a memory leak in the collector that has affected many users. Other bug fixes include file decriptor leaks in the schedd, encryption working with parallel jobs, and remote attributes in Condor-C job ads. See the Version History for a complete list of changes. Condor 7.2.3 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The International Summer School on Grid Computing 2009, will be in July 2009 in Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France. It's a two-week hands-on summer school course in grid technologies. You'll get a chance to learn a lot of in-depth material not only about various grid technologies, but about the principles that underly them and connect them together. The school will include talks from well-known grid experts in deploying, using, and developing grids. Hands-on laboratory exercises will give participants experience with widely used grid middleware. More Information

The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.2.4. This is a bugfix release to the stable series of Condor. See the Version History for a complete list of changes. Condor 7.2.4 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.3.0. This development release contains all bug fixes from the 7.2.1 stable release plus new features, including improved support for private networks, scalability, controlling cpu affinity, DAGMan enhancements, and more. See the version history for a detailed list of changes. Condor 7.3.0 binaries and source code are available from our downloads page.

This NCSA news release highlights the work of Jim Kupsch, working for the SDSC and the UW-Madison Vulnerability Assessment project. The project performs independent security audits of grid computing codes such as Condor and MyProxy.

The Condor Team is pleased to announce the release of Condor 7.2.1. This release addresses a handful of critical Windows-specific problems that were discovered after the release of Condor 7.2.0. This release also adds a native clipped port to Debian 5.0 (Lenny), support for the gfortran compiler in standard universe, support for standard output and error files larger than 2GB, and several other bug fixes. See the version history for a detailed list of changes. Condor 7.2.1 binaries and source code are available from our downloads page.

This CXOtoday.com article gives an overview of Condor, noting that Condor scales from small to large use cases.