[Swift-devel] 0.94 release note draft

[David Kelly]

I think it is there. It looks like your memory fixes were committed on 2-2, and the current 0.94 branch is based on a snapshot of trunk from 2-15. 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Mihael Hategan" <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
> To: "David Kelly" <davidk at ci.uchicago.edu>
> Cc: "Michael Wilde" <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>, "Swift Devel"
> <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 12:36:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] 0.94 release note draft

> So I don't think I committed the memory leak fixes to 0.94 and I
> think
> they should be there.

> Mihael

> On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 07:06 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> > Here is the list, based mostly on what I could find in the svn
> > logs.
> >
> >
> >
> > - To behavior of iterate has changed from 0.93 to 0.94. If you have
> > scripts
> > that use iterate, please read
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/release-0.94/userguide/userguide.html#_iterate
> >
> >
> > - Walltimes are more strictly enforced by coasters. Previous to
> > Swift version
> > 0.94, if an application run with coasters would exceed its
> > specified
> > maxwalltime, it would be allowed to continue to execute. However,
> > if this
> > would cause the worker on which the application was running to
> > exceed its
> > maxwalltime, the queuing system would kill the worker. The
> > resulting error
> > message was not always very clear. Since version 0.94 coaster
> > workers enforce
> > the user-specified maxwalltime. If an application exceeds its
> > maxwalltime,
> > the coaster worker will not allow it to continue, but terminate it
> > and report
> > the error.
> >
> >
> > - Swift will now use camel case for functions, for example, @toInt
> > instead of
> > @toint. The previous naming convention will still work, but you may
> > see
> > deprecated warnings.
> >
> >
> > - Associative arrays have been added. More details and examples can
> > be found at
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/release-0.94/userguide/userguide.html#_associative_arrays
> >
> >
> > - Dynamic profiles. Many settings formerly only definable in
> > sites.xml can now
> > be set on a per-app basis. This can make things easier when running
> > multiple apps that have different requirements for settings like
> > processors
> > per node and wallitme.
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/release-0.94/userguide/userguide.html#_dynamic_profiles
> >
> >
> > - Added a new ssh command line provider. Previously ssh support was
> > done by
> > creating a file called ~/.ssh/auth.defaults. The ssh command line
> > provider
> > is more flexible and doesn't require this step. ssh-cl allows you
> > to use
> > SSH agents. You can use ssh-cl by adding something like this to
> > your sites.xml:
> >
> >
> > <execution provider="coaster" url="my.host.uchicago.edu"
> > jobmanager="ssh-cl:pbs"/>
> >
> >
> > - Many fixes and improvements to improve the reliability and
> > performance of
> > coaster provider staging.
> >
> >
> > - Added support for the Slurm scheduler
> >
> >
> > - Added support for the LSF scheduler
> >
> >
> > - Improvements to condor provider (non-shared jobtype and more
> > flexibility
> > to define what gets added to the submit script).
> >
> >
> > - Fixes for the textual user interface (TUI). Adding the -tui
> > option to the swift
> > command line allows you to monitor progress in a curses based menu.
> > A brief
> > example of this can be found at
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~davidk/modis.ogv.
> >
> >
> > - Added the ability to call Java methods within swift using @java.
> > For example:
> > float f = @java("java.lang.Math", "sin", 0.5);
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/release-0.94/userguide/userguide.html#_java
> >
> >
> > - Added a hang checker that provides the user with more information
> > about
> > potential hangs
> >
> >
> > - @strjoin function for joining strings.
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/release-0.94/userguide/userguide.html#_strjoin
> >
> >
> > - If you have a requirement that a command get run on the worker
> > node before
> > processing any work, worker.pl will now execute commands stored in
> > the
> > environment variable $WORKER_INIT_CMD
> >
> >
> > - Use $SWIFT_USERHOME to determine where to swift should create
> > some of its
> > required files. This defaults to $HOME, but this may cause problems
> > in some
> > situations where $HOME is not accessable on worker nodes.
> >
> >
> > - Experimental "wrapper staging" feature that delegates file
> > staging to an
> > external wrapper script.
> >
> >
> > - Various improvements to the way that Swift runs MPI jobs.
> >
> >
> > - Better OSG integration/support using GlideinWMS.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> > From: "Michael Wilde" <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>
> > To: "David Kelly" <davidk at ci.uchicago.edu>
> > Cc: "Swift Devel" <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:08:56 PM
> > Subject: Fwd: 0.94 release note draft
> >
> >
> > Some notes toward an 0.94 release notes document.
> >
> > There's a longer list, I think in an IM chat transcript, that we
> > need to incorporate.
> >
> > Please send additional items to this thread for David to integrate.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Mike
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